Three new studies examine how people perceive colors differently when it comes to the photograph of 'The Dress'.
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.
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.
A new study explores the relationship between working memory and how people perceive colors.
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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.
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.
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.
Researchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive colors.
The color red is not particularly strong in terms of the strength of gamma oscillations it generates in the brain.
A new study reports our brains fill in the color when we look at black and white images.
Neuroimaging study sheds new light on how we perceive colors. Activity in higher visual cortex areas matched the colors test subjects saw.
Findings upend the long-standing belief that blind people lack deep knowledge of visual phenomena.