Guide to the Tarow Indow papers MS.F.027
Machine-readable finding aid created by Cyndi Shein, 2008.
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
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The UCI Libraries
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University of California, Irvine
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Title: Tarow Indow papers
Creator:
Indow, Tarow
Identifier/Call Number: MS.F.027
Physical Description:
7.4 Linear Feet
(13 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1952-2003
Date (bulk): 1981-1994
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.
Language of Material:
English
.
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
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Gift of Minako Indow, 2007.
Processed by Cyndi Shein, 2008.
This collection has been minimally processed.
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.
| 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 | Psychological Review 88, |
| 1989 | Receives Judd-AIC Award. |
| 1990 | Psychological Explorations of Mental Structures. |
| 1991 | Psychological Review, 98, |
| 1993 | Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psychometrics, and Methodology |
| Behaviormetrika, 20, | |
| 1995 | Geometrical Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Papers in honor of Tarow Indow on his 70th birthday. |
| 2004 | Global Structure of Visual Space |
| 2007 September 22 | Dies at age 84 following hospitalization for a throat and lung disorder. |
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
Library Search .
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.
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).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Social scientists.
Color -- Psychological aspects -- History -- Sources.
University of California, Irvine -- Faculty -- Archives
Indow, Tarow -- Archives
box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6
Card catalog of various reprints of interest to Indow's field of research circa 1960-1998
box 7
Keio University materials and bilingual dictionaries 1952-1958, undated
box 7
box 8, box 9
box 9, box 10
box 11, box 12