Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of aspects of colour categorization, perception and preference. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at a conference on Progress in Colour Studies (PICS08) held at the University of Glasgow. The volume both updates research reported at the earlier PICS04 conference (published by Benjamins in 2006 as Progress in Colour Studies volumes 1 and 2), and introduces new and exciting topics and developments in colour research. In order to make the articles maximally accessible to a multidisciplinary readership, each of the six sections following the initial theoretical papers begins with a short preface describing and drawing together the themes of the chapters within that section. There are seventeen colour illustrations.

Table of Contents:
1. Preface; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Section 1. Theoretical issues; 4. Illusions of colour and shadow (by Kingdom, Frederick A.A.); 5. Universal trends and specific deviations: Multidimensional scaling of colour terms from the World Color Survey (by Bimler, David); 6. Touchy-Feely colour (by Chirimuuta, Mazviita); 7. Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman (by Sutrop, Urmas); 8. Section 2. Languages of the world; 9. Preface to Section 2; 10. Basic colour terms of Arabic (by Al-Rasheed, Abdulrahman S.); 11. Red herrings in a sea of data: Exploring colour terms with the SCOTS Corpus (by Anderson, Wendy); 12. Towards a diachrony of Maltese basic colour terms (by Borg, Alexander); 13. Rosa Schatze - Pink zum kaufen: Stylistic confusion, subjective perception and semantic uncertainty of a loaned colour term (by Frenzel-Biamonti, Claudia); 14. Kashubian colour vocabulary (by Stanulewicz, Danuta); 15. Colour terms: Evolution via expansion of taxonomic constraints (by Rakhilina, Ekaterina V.); 16. Preliminary research on Turkish basic colour terms with an emphasis on blue (by Ratsep, Kaidi); 17. Terms for red in Central Europe: An areal phenomenon in Hungarian and Czech (by Uuskula, Mari); 18. Section 3. Colour in society; 19. Preface to Section 3; 20. Colours in the community: Surnames and bynames in Scottish society (by Bramwell, Ellen); 21. Hues and cries: Francis Bacon's use of colour (by Chare, Nicholas); 22. Colour appearance in urban chromatic studies (by Cler, Michel); 23. Aspects of armorial colours and their perception in medieval literature (by Huxtable, Michael J.); 24. Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage: Dimensions and connotations of conceptual color metaphor/metonym (by Sandford, Jodi Louise); 25. The power of colour term precision: The use of non-basic colour terms in nineteenth-century English travelogues about northern Scandinavia (by Steinvall, Anders); 26. Section 4. Categorical perception of colour; 27. Preface to Section 4; 28. Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique (by Clifford, Alexandra); 29. Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field (by Drivonikou, Gilda V.); 30. Effects of stimulus range on color categorization (by Wright, Oliver); 31. Section 5. Individual differences in colour vision; 32. Preface to Section 5; 33. Colour and autism spectrum disorders (by Franklin, Anna); 34. Red-Green dichromats' use of basic colour terms (by Lillo, Julio); 35. Synaesthesia in colour (by Simner, Julia); 36. Towards a phonetically-rich account of speech-sound --> colour synaesthesia (by Smith, Rachel); 37. Perceiving "grue": Filter simulations of aged lenses support the Lens-Brunescence hypothesis and reveal individual categorization types (by Walter, Sebastian); 38. Section 6. Colour preference and colour meaning; 39. Preface to Section 6; 40. Age-dependence of colour preference in the U.K. population (by Ling, Zhu); 41. Ecological valence and human color preference (by Palmer, Stephen E.); 42. Look and learn: Links between colour preference and colour cognition (by Pitchford, Nicola); 43. Effects of lightness and saturation on color associations in the Mexican population (by Prado-Leon, Lilia Roselia); 44. Colour and emotion (by Simmons, David R.); 45. Colors and color adjectives in the cortex (by Plebe, Alessio); 46. Section 7. Colour vision science; 47. Preface to Section 7; 48. Chromatic perceptual learning (by Sowden, Paul T.); 49. Unique hues: Perception and brain imaging (by Wuerger, Sophie); 50. A short note on visual balance judgements as a tool for colour appearance matching (by Ronchi, Lucia R.); 51. Index