What You Think Is What You See
Perception and working memory are more deeply entangled than previously believed.... Read More...
color perception
Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces
Facial processing and color processing may engage in similar brain mechanisms.... Read More...
Associating 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...
Making Sense of How the Blind ‘See’ Color
Researchers suggest blind and sighted people experience visual phenomena differently, but share a common understanding of them.... Read More...
The Way You See Color Depends on the Language You Speak
Researchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive colors.... Read More...
How We Perceive Color
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...
How Detecting Social Signals May Have Affected How We See Colors
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...
Why Did We See “The Dress” Differently? The Answer Lies in the Shadows
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...
Feeling Blue? Sadness Can Impair Perception of Color
According to a new study, feeling sad can lead to changes in our color perception. ... Read More...
Seeing 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...
Researcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Color Perception and Memory
A new study explores the relationship between working memory and how people perceive colors.... Read More...
Inside the Colourful World of Animal Vision
Due to differences in visual systems, not all animals see the world in the same way.... Read More...