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·April 16, 2016·5 min read

A New System for Color Vision

Researchers have discovered a mechanism of color vision that could answer long standing questions, such as why a dimly lit night sky has a bluish cast.

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·September 18, 2017·6 min read

Analyzing the Language of Color

A new MIT study reports languages divide warmer colors into more color words than cooler shades. This, researchers note, is apparent across more than 100 languages.

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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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·April 20, 2015·3 min read

Circadian Clock Measures Time of Day by Color of Light

According to a new study, the color of light has significant impact on our circadian clock.

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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.

Image shows a chicken pecking at two orange cones.

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·June 17, 2016·3 min read

Color Vision Helps Birds Find Good Food and the Right Partner

According to researchers, color vision is vital for chickens to find good food and the right mating partner.

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·February 13, 2016·5 min read

Dark Colors Are Conveyed Faster Than Light

A new study reports on how simultaneous counter-change of luminance at the borders between object and background triggers activity waves in the visual brain.

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·June 27, 2019·3 min read

Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape

Visual neurons selectively respond to color and shape along a continuum. While some neurons are only activated by either a specific color or shape, others are responsive to color and shape simultaneously. The findings contradict previous beliefs about how visual processing works.

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·October 15, 2022·4 min read

Do We Perceive Colors Differently Depending on the Language We Speak?

Color perception can be affected by cultural influences, learning experiences, and our mother tongue.

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·September 29, 2020·3 min read

How the Brain Processes Color

Novel technology allows researchers to understand how a fruit fly's brain processes color.

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·May 15, 2018·3 min read

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.