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2026MukherjeeGPT
Large Language Models Estimate Fine-Grained Human Color-Concept Associations

Mukherjee, K., Mohapatra, A., Rogers, T. T., & Schloss, K. B.

Cognitive Science, 50, 6, e70219.

2025Schloss
Perceptual and cognitive foundations of information visualization

Schloss, K. B.

Annual Review of Vision Science, 11, 1, 303-330.

2024Schloss
Color semantics in human cognition

Schloss, K. B.

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33, 1, 58-67.

Schoenlein_etal_2026
Understanding the opaque-is-more bias and saturated-is-more bias for colormap data visualizations

Schoenlein, M. A., Sidibe, M., & Schloss, K. B.

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

 

Braun_etal_2025
Affective color scales for colormap data visualizations

Braun, H. B., Mukherjee, K., Gorelik, S. R., & Schloss, K. B.

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

HowardSchloss2025
Texture Semantics is robust to scaling

Howard, Z. S., & Schloss, K. B.

2025 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS).

Soto_Schoenlein_Schloss
More of what? Dissociating effects of conceptual and numeric mappings on interpreting colormap data visualizations. 

Soto, L., Schoenlein, M. A., & Schloss, K. B.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8, 38, 1-17.

Schoenlein_Schloss
Color-concept association formation for novel concepts

Schoenlein, M. A. & Schloss, K. B.

Visual Cognition

Mukherjee_etal
Context Matters: A Theory of Semantic Discriminability for
Perceptual Encoding Systems

Kushin Mukherjee, Brian Yin, Brianne E. Sherman, Laurent Lessard, and Karen B. Schloss

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics