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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Color Science
    • Perception

    Background:

    • Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is typically used to visualize color dissimilarities in low-dimensional spaces.
    • Key questions persist regarding MDS accuracy with sparse data and distinguishing individual perceptual variations from noise.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To assess the recovery of stimulus locations in color space using sparse data.
    • To differentiate systematic individual perceptual scaling variations from random noise.

    Main Methods:

    • Collected triadic comparisons of saturated and desaturated Natural Color System samples arranged in hue circles.
    • Employed maximum likelihood multidimensional scaling (ML-MDS) for stimulus configuration reconstruction.

    Main Results:

    • ML-MDS provided more accurate stimulus configuration recovery than the standard vote-count method.
    • Minor, consistent individual variations in perceptual scaling were observed across stimulus sets.
    • These variations were linked to differences in the salience of color-space axes.
    • No significant gender differences in perceptual scaling were detected.

    Conclusions:

    • Maximum likelihood MDS is effective for analyzing sparse color difference data.
    • Individual color perception variations are subtle and related to axis salience.
    • Previous findings of gender differences in color scaling were not replicated.