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Title: Tarow Indow papers
Date: 1952-2003,
Date (bulk): bulk 1981-1994
Collection Number: MS-F027
Creator:
Indow, Tarow, 1923-
Extent:
7.4 linear feet
(13 boxes)
Languages: The collection is in English and Japanese.
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Physical Location: The collection is stored offsite at SRLF. Advanced notice is required for access.
Abstract: This collection comprises the papers of Tarow Indow, professor of Cognitive Sciences and founding member of the Institute
for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Indow was an internationally known expert on
the human visual system and semantic memory. The collection primarily contains lecture notes, teaching materials, and reprints
of his scholarly articles. The materials reflect his research interests in mathematical models in visual space, color space,
and human memory.
Important Information for Researchers
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are retained by the creators of the records and their
heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Tarow Indow Papers. MS-F027. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Gift of Minako Indow, 2007.
Processed by Cyndi Shein, 2008.
Dr. Tarow Indow was an internationally known expert on the human visual system and semantic memory. His research, reported
in over 100 technical papers in major journals, covered geometric representations of visual space, formalisms of color space,
stochastic representations of semantic memory, and ability testing.
Indow received his Ph.D. from Keio University in Tokyo, where he then rose to a full professorship and later became professor
emeritus. During his early years in the United States he held visiting positions at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced
Study, and at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). In 1979 he became a professor in cognitive sciences at the School
of Social Sciences at UCI and was later a founding member of UCI's Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. He was
also a respected member of the International Society for Psychophysics, Society of Experimental Psychologists, and International
Color Association.
Biography/Organization History
| 1923 August 22 | Born in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1945 | Receives Ph.D. from Keio University in Tokyo. |
| 1953 | Marries Minako Kawamura, a language teacher at a private high school. |
| 1973-1977 | Serves as president of the International Color Association. |
| 1979 | Becomes professor of cognitive sciences at UCI. |
| 1986 | Is elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. |
| 1988 | Publishes "Multidimensional studies of Munsell color solid." Psychological Review 88, 456-470. |
| 1989 | Receives Judd-AIC Award. |
| 1990 | Publishes "On geometrical analysis of global structure of visual space." In H.T. Geissler (Ed.) Psychological Explorations of Mental Structures. Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber, Chapter 14, 172-180. |
| 1991 | Publishes "A critical review of Luneburg's model with regard to global structure of visual space." Psychological Review, 98, 430-453. |
| 1993 | Publishes "Analysis of events counted on time-dimension: A soft model based pm extreme statistics." Behaviormetrika, 20, 111-118. |
| A festschrift is published in his honor. He retires, but continues research activities on developing color measures in collaboration with professor emeritus A. K. Romney. 1994Publishes "Metrics in color spaces: Im kleinen und im grossen." In Fisher, G.H., and Laming, D. (Eds.) Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psychometrics, and Methodology, Chapter 1, 3-17. Springer. | |
| 1995 | Publishes "Psychophysical scaling: Scientific and practical applications." In Luce, R. D., D'Zmura, M., Hoffman, D., Iverson, G., and Romney, K. (Eds.) Geometrical Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in honor of Tarow Indow on his 70th birthday. Chapter 1, 1-28, Mahwah, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum. |
| 2004 | Publishes Global Structure of Visual Space, New Jersey: World Scientific. |
| 2007 September 22 | Dies at age 84 following hospitalization for a throat and lung disorder. |
University of California, Irvine. School of Social Sciences. "News Detail. In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Tarow Indow."
University of California, Irvine. September 26, 2007. http://www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/news_item.php?nid=1546 (accessed
July 2, 2008).
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises the papers of Tarow Indow, an internationally known expert on the human visual system and semantic
memory. The collection primarily contains notes for course lectures, conferences, and other presentations; reprints of his
scholarly articles;
and teaching aids and research tools related to the science of color.
The materials reflect his research interests and teaching in the global structure and geometry of visual space; metrics in
object color space, an interdisciplinary problem in applied physics, experimental psychology, physiology, and mathematics;
and retrieval of information from long-term memory.
This collection is arranged by type of material.
Multiple publications were removed from this collection and cataloged separately in the library's online catalog
ANTPAC .
Student grade reports were removed from the collection and shredded. Also not retained in the collection were research files
largely containing photocopies of published works and correspondence, mostly concerning Indow's work as a peer reviewer.
This collection has been minimally processed.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Indow, Tarow, 1923- -- Archives.
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty --Archives.
Color -- Psychological aspects -- History --Sources.
Social scientists.