We disseminate the findings of our research to a multidisciplinary scientific community, including developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, neuroscientists and cognitive scientists. In addition to publishing our findings in scientific journals, we disseminate findings to the public via the media (e.g., TV / radio). We also provide consultation with industry.
Publications
Bannisy, M.J., Tester, V., Muggleton, N.G., Janik, A.B., Davenport, A., Franklin, A., Walsh, V. & Ward, J. (2013). Synesthesia for color is linked to improved color perception, but reduced motion perception. Psychological Science, in press.
Farran, E.K., Cranwell, M.K., Alvarez, J. & Franklin, A. (2013). Colour discrimination and categorisation in Williams syndrome. Research in Developmental Disabilities, in press.
Taylor, C., Schloss, K., Palmer, S. & Franklin, A. (2013). Color preferences in infants and adults are different. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, in press.
Ludlow, A., Heaton, P., Hill, E. & Franklin, A. (2012). Colour obsessions and phobias in Autism Spectrum Disorders: the case of J.G. Neurocase, in press.
Taylor, C., Clifford, A. & Franklin, A. (2012). Color preferences are not universal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, in press.
Clifford, A., Franklin, A., Holmes, A., Drivonikou, G.V., Ozgen, E., & Davies, I.R.L. (2012). Neural correlates of acquired color category effects. Brain and Cognition, 80, 126-143.
Taylor, C. & Franklin, A. (2012). The relationship between color-object associations and color preference: Further investigation of Ecological Valence Theory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 19, 190-197.
Franklin, A., Gibbons, E., Chittenden, K, Alvarez, J. & Taylor, C. (2012). Infant color preference for red is not selectively context specific. Emotion, 12, 1155-1160.
Franklin, A. & Sowden, P. (2011). Colour in Autism Spectrum Disorders. In Biggam, Carole P., Hough, Carole, Kay, Christian & Simmons, David R.C. (Eds.), New Directions in Colour Studies. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, NL.
Drivonikou, G.V., Clifford, A., Franklin, A. & Davies, I.R.L. (2011). Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field. In Biggam et al. (Eds.), New Directions in Colour Studies. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, NL.
Clifford, A., Franklin, A., Holmes, A. & Davies, I.R.L. (2011). Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the Event-Related Potential technique. In Biggam et al. (Eds.), New Directions in Colour Studies. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, NL.
Clifford, A., Holmes, A., Davies, I.R.L. & Franklin, A. (2010). Color categories affect pre-attentive color perception. Biological Psychology, 85, 275-282.
Franklin, A., Catherwood, D., Alvarez, J. & Axelsson, E. (2010). Hemispheric asymmetries in categorical perception of orientation in infants and adults. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2648-57.
Franklin, A., Sowden, P., Notman, L., Gonzales-Dixon, M., West, D., Alexander, I., Loveday, S. & White, A. (2010). Reduced chromatic discrimination in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Developmental Science, 13, 188-200.
Franklin, A., Bevis, L., Ling, Y. & Hurlbert, A. (2010). Biological components of infant colour preference. Developmental Science, 13, 346-354.
Franklin, A. (2009). Pre-linguistic categorical perception of colour cannot be explained by colour preference: response to Roberson and Hanley. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 501-502.
Clifford, A., Franklin, A., Davies, I.R.L. & Holmes, A. (2009). Electrophysiological markers of color categories in the infant brain. Brain and Cognition, 71, 165-172.
Holmes, A., Franklin, A., Clifford, A. & Davies, I.R.L. (2009). Neuro-physiological evidence for categorical perception of colour: evidence from Event-Related Potentials on a visual oddball task. Brain and Cognition, 69, 426-434.
Franklin, A., Wright, O. & Davies, I.R.L. (2009). What can we learn from toddlers about categorical perception of colour? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 239-245.
Overview of Franklin, Drivonikou, Clifford et al. in ‘Editor’s Choice’ section of Science: Chin, G. (2009). ‘Reading from left to right.’ Science, 322, 1610.
Franklin, A., Drivonikou, G.V., Clifford, A., Kay, P., Regier, T. & Davies, I.R.L. (2008). Lateralization of categorical perception of color changes with color term acquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 47, 18221-18225.
Franklin, A., Sowden, P., Burley, R., Notman, L. & Alder, E. (2008). Colour perception in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1837-47.
Franklin, A., Pitchford, N.J.P., Mahony, L., Davies, I.R.L., Clausse, S. & Jennings, S. (2008). Salience of primary and secondary colours in infancy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26, 471-483.
Franklin, A., Drivonikou, G.V., Bevis, L., Davies, I.R.L., Kay, P. & Regier, T. (2008). Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 105, 3221-3225.
Drivonikou, G.V., Kay, P., Regier, T., Ivry, R., Gilbert, A., Franklin, A. & Davies, I.R.L. (2007). Further evidence of Whorfian effects to the right visual field. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 104, 1097-1102.
Franklin, A., & Davies, I.R.L. (2006). Converging evidence for pre-linguistic colour categorisation. In C.P Biggam & N. Pitchford (Eds.), Progress in Colour Studies: Psychological Aspects (pp. 101-120). John Benjamins: Amsterdam, NL.
Franklin, A., (2006). Constraints on children’s colour term acquisition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 322-327.
Daoutis, C., Franklin, A., Riddett, A., Clifford, C. & Davies, I.R.L. (2005). Categorical effects in children’s colour search: a cross-linguistic comparison. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23, 1-29.
Franklin, A., Pilling, M. & Davies, I.R.L. (2005). The nature of infant colour categorisation: Evidence from eye-movements on a target detection task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 91, 227-248.
Franklin, A., Clifford, A., Williamson, E. & Davies, I.R.L. (2005). Colour term knowledge does not affect categorical perception of colour in toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90, 114-141.
Franklin, A. & Davies, I.R.L. (2004). New evidence for infant colour categories. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 349-377.
Davies, I.R.L. & Franklin, A. (2002). Categorical similarity may affect colour pop-out in infants after-all. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 185-203.
Media
We communicate the findings of our research to both the national and international media. Examples are:
- BBC Radio 4, 'Technicolour: Colour Naming'
- BBC World, 'The Why Factor: Blue', Radio, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0109rmd
- BBC Horizon, 'Do you See What I See?', TV programme
- National Public Radio (USA)
- The Naked Scientist, BBC 5 Live Radio
- Southern Counties Radio
- Radio 6PR Perth (Australia)
- Beat Radio (Ireland)
- Mercury Radio
- BBC News Online
- Nature News
- The Times
- Junior Baby and Pregnancy Magazine
Invited Talks
- Kenneth Craik Club, Cambridge University
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London
- Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, Paris
- Cognitive Brown Bag Seminar Series, School of Psychology, University of Sussex
- Institute for Mathematical Behavioural Sciences, University of California, Irvine
- Ivry Lab, University of California, Berkeley
- Department of Psychology, University of Nevada
- Whitney-Silver-Palmer-Prinzmetal-Robertson mtg, University of California, Berkeley
- Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego
- Center for the Explanation of Consciousness, Stanford University
- Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
- Invited speaker, Optical Society of America Fall Vision Meeting, USA
- Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College
- Invited debate, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- Vision@UCL, University College London
- Keynote Address, Iberian Conference of Perception
- Whitehead Lecture, Goldsmiths University
- Language and Development Group, Oxford University
- Adult and Child Cognition Group, Royal Holloway
- Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University
- Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University
- Health Sciences, University of Roehampton
- Psychology Department, University of Reading
- Psychology Department, University of Bangor
- Psychology Department, Lancaster University
- Childhood Research in Autism Cognition Group, University of Nottingham
- Centre for Childhood Development and Learning, The Open University
- Dannemiller Lab, Rice University, Houston, USA
- Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College
- Surrey Morphology Group, University of Surrey
- Developmental Psychology Group, University of Nottingham
- Surrey-Essex-Goldsmiths CogPop Group, University of Surrey
- Developmental Psychology Group, Oxford University</