FeaturedNeuroscience·November 2, 2013·2 min readThe Visual Brain Colors Black and White ImagesA new study reports our brains fill in the color when we look at black and white images.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·November 8, 2014·5 min readInside the Colourful World of Animal VisionDue to differences in visual systems, not all animals see the world in the same way.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·February 10, 2015·4 min readResearcher Explores Complex Relationship Between Color Perception and MemoryA new study explores the relationship between working memory and how people perceive colors.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·May 14, 2015·5 min readSeeing 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
FeaturedPsychology·September 2, 2015·3 min readFeeling Blue? Sadness Can Impair Perception of ColorAccording to a new study, feeling sad can lead to changes in our color perception.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·April 8, 2017·4 min readWhy 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
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·June 14, 2017·5 min readHow 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·May 15, 2018·3 min readHow 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
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychologyVisual Neuroscience·May 22, 2018·4 min readThe 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·February 28, 2019·6 min readMaking 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
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·April 4, 2019·5 min readAssociating 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 ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·July 9, 2019·4 min readRosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading facesFacial processing and color processing may engage in similar brain mechanisms.Read More
