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·November 22, 2022·4 min read

Could We Train Our Brains to See New Colors?

Researchers question if our brains can take in three primary color inputs and turn them into the range of different colors we can see, could a little bit more mental work result in us unlocking different hues?

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·October 8, 2022·5 min read

The Effect of the Color Red on Brain Waves

The color red is not particularly strong in terms of the strength of gamma oscillations it generates in the brain.

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·August 31, 2021·6 min read

Why Can’t We Identify Music Notes as Well as Colors? Pitch Perfect Study Provides Answers

Frequency follow response (FFR) is a strong predictor of a person's ability to recognize and name musical notes, and may be an accurate metric for understanding a person's ability to recognize sounds. FFR may not be a fixed trait and can be improved over time.

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·August 16, 2021·5 min read

Blind People Can’t See Color but Understand It the Same Way as Sighted People

Findings upend the long-standing belief that blind people lack deep knowledge of visual phenomena.

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·February 9, 2021·6 min read

Human Eye Beats Machine in Archaeological Color Identification Test

X-Rite Capsure, an archaeological tool to help researchers match colors, is not as consistent or accurate as the human eye in color determination.

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·February 9, 2021·7 min read

Color Is in the Eye of the Beholder

The evolution of red color vision in a species of butterfly is linked to coordinating rhodopsin tuning.

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·February 6, 2021·5 min read

Do You See Red Like I See Red?

Researchers answer the age-old question of why people perceive the same color in different ways?

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·November 16, 2020·5 min read

Activity Patterns in the Brain Are Specific to the Color You See

Researchers were able to ascertain the colors people were seeing by looking at their brain activity. The study reveals we have unique brain activity associated with specific colors.

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·August 28, 2020·4 min read

Researchers Reveal a Color Palette in Brain

Study links brain structure to color perceptual function. Microscopy revealed 'hue maps,' or color palettes, in the brain that are spectrally organized arrangements of hue responses.

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·May 28, 2020·3 min read

Which 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.

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·September 3, 2019·4 min read

Human perception of colors does not rely entirely on language

Based 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.