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Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!

Neuroscience NewsApril 4, 2019

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...

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Making Sense of How the Blind ‘See’ Color

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 28, 2019

Researchers suggest blind and sighted people experience visual phenomena differently, but share a common understanding of them.... Read More...

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The Way You See Color Depends on the Language You Speak

Neuroscience NewsMay 22, 2018

Researchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive colors.... Read More...

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How We Perceive Color

Neuroscience NewsMay 15, 2018

According 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...

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How Detecting Social Signals May Have Affected How We See Colors

Neuroscience NewsJune 14, 2017

A 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...

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Why Did We See “The Dress” Differently? The Answer Lies in the Shadows

Neuroscience NewsApril 8, 2017

Researchers 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...

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Feeling Blue? Sadness Can Impair Perception of Color

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 2, 2015

According to a new study, feeling sad can lead to changes in our color perception. ... Read More...

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Seeing Black and Blue or White and Gold? Three Perspectives on How We Perceive “The Dress”

Neuroscience NewsMay 14, 2015

Three new studies examine how people perceive colors differently when it comes to the photograph of 'The Dress'.... Read More...

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Researcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Color Perception and Memory

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 10, 2015

A new study explores the relationship between working memory and how people perceive colors.... Read More...

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Inside the Colourful World of Animal Vision

Neuroscience NewsNovember 8, 2014

Due to differences in visual systems, not all animals see the world in the same way.... Read More...

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The Visual Brain Colors Black and White Images

Neuroscience NewsNovember 2, 2013

A new study reports our brains fill in the color when we look at black and white images.... Read More...

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color perception

Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!

Making Sense of How the Blind ‘See’ Color

The Way You See Color Depends on the Language You Speak

How We Perceive Color

Why Did We See “The Dress” Differently? The Answer Lies in the Shadows

Feeling Blue? Sadness Can Impair Perception of Color

Seeing Black and Blue or White and Gold? Three Perspectives on How We Perceive “The Dress”

Researcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Color Perception and Memory

Inside the Colourful World of Animal Vision

The Visual Brain Colors Black and White Images