| Notes on contributors | |
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Color naming across languages | 21 |
| 3 | The psychophysics of color | 59 |
| 4 | Physiological mechanisms of color vision | 89 |
| 5 | The neuropsychology of color | 118 |
| 6 | Insights gained from naming the OSA colors | 135 |
| 7 | Beyond the elements: Investigations of hue | 151 |
| 8 | Color systems for cognitive research | 163 |
| 9 | Establishing basic color terms: measures and techniques | 197 |
| 10 | Color shift: evolution of English color terms from brightness to hue | 224 |
| 11 | Two observations on culture contact and the Japanese color nomenclature system | 240 |
| 12 | Skewing and darkening: dynamics of the Cool category | 261 |
| 13 | Genes, opsins, neurons, and color categories: closing the gaps | 283 |
| 14 | It's not really red, green, yellow, blue: an inquiry into perceptual color space | 295 |
| 15 | The linguistics of "color" | 320 |
| 16 | Closing thoughts | 347 |
| Subject index | 373 |
| Author index | 385 |