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Color And Memory, Hanna Vafiades, Alyssa Stephens, Tanner Clark, Sydney Susano
Color And Memory, Hanna Vafiades, Alyssa Stephens, Tanner Clark, Sydney Susano
Belmont University Research Symposium (BURS)
Effects of Color on Working Memory Performance
Primary Investigator: Hanna Vafiades
Associate Investigators: Tanner Clark, Sydney Susano, Alyssa Stephens
The intersection of color and working memory is a fascinating but inconclusive domain of cognitive psychological research. Some studies have demonstrated that the color black is found to be the least stimulating in terms of attention and memory (Meacham 2005), whereas colors found in nature are effective in facilitating attention and memory in young children (Dutta & Baruah, 2018). Another study found that only images or image descriptions in grayscale are better for memory tasks and that color memory is poor …