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·May 14, 2015·5 min read

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'.

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·April 4, 2019·5 min read

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.

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·November 8, 2014·5 min read

Inside the Colourful World of Animal Vision

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

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·April 8, 2017·4 min read

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.

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·June 14, 2017·5 min read

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.

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·September 2, 2015·3 min read

Feeling Blue? Sadness Can Impair Perception of Color

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

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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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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·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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·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.