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A Comparison of the Colour Aptitude and Memory of Art Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Stephen R. Cobb
Stephen R. Cobb
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow
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Summary

Using the ISCC and the Burnham-Clark-Munsell tests, the colour aptitude and colour memory of a group of art students have been compared with a control group, matched for sex and age. The results of the colour aptitude test show that, for the men, but not for the women, the art students performed significantly better than the control group. With the colour memory test, there was no significant difference between the art students and the controls but, overall, the women had better results than the men.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1975 , pp. 5 - 14
Copyright
Copyright © 1975, Cambridge University Press

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