FeaturedNeurosciencevisual neuroscience·May 28, 2020Which areas of our brains represent the colors we see?Neuroimaging study sheds new light on how we perceive colors. Activity in higher visual cortex areas matched the colors test subjects saw. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articlesvisual neuroscience·September 3, 2019Human perception of colors does not rely entirely on languageBased on the study of a stroke patient with damage to the occipito-temporal brain region, researchers made a big discovery about color categorization. They reveal color categorization and naming can be independent in the human brain. The finding challenges long-standing theories of the mandatory involvement of language in adult human cognition and color discrimination. Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencevisual neuroscience·July 17, 2019What You Think Is What You SeePerception and working memory are more deeply entangled than previously believed. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyvisual neuroscience·July 9, 2019Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading facesFacial processing and color processing may engage in similar brain mechanisms. Read More
auditory neuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyvisual neuroscience·April 4, 2019Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!While only 1 in 25 people has synesthesia, a new study reports intuitions about 'sound colors' are shared by a greater percentage of people. Sound color perception is mainly driven by the vowels in language. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articlesvisual neuroscience·February 28, 2019Making Sense of How the Blind ‘See’ ColorResearchers suggest blind and sighted people experience visual phenomena differently, but share a common understanding of them. Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyvisual neuroscience·May 22, 2018The Way You See Color Depends on the Language You SpeakResearchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive colors. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articlesvisual neuroscience·May 15, 2018How We Perceive ColorAccording to researchers, the 'fill in' effect makes only a small contribution to how we perceive colors in an image. The study also provides new evidence that color processing cells play a vital role in color perception. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyvisual neuroscience·June 14, 2017How Detecting Social Signals May Have Affected How We See ColorsA new study reports the photoreceptors in our eyes allow us to detect socially significant color variations better than other types of color vision. Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articlesvisual neuroscience·April 8, 2017Why Did We See “The Dress” Differently? The Answer Lies in the ShadowsResearchers reports that, when it comes to images like 'the dress, our differences in color perception may be due to assumptions about how the stimuli was illuminated. Read More
FeaturedPsychology·September 2, 2015Feeling Blue? Sadness Can Impair Perception of ColorAccording to a new study, feeling sad can lead to changes in our color perception. Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencevisual neuroscience·May 14, 2015Seeing Black and Blue or White and Gold? Three Perspectives on How We Perceive “The Dress”Three new studies examine how people perceive colors differently when it comes to the photograph of 'The Dress'. Read More
