FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·November 23, 2022·4 min readPicky Eaters Are Put Off by Food Depending on Plateware ColorThe color of the plate food is served on influences taste perception, a new study reports.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·October 15, 2022·4 min readDo We Perceive Colors Differently Depending on the Language We Speak?Color perception can be affected by cultural influences, learning experiences, and our mother tongue.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·October 8, 2022·5 min readThe Effect of the Color Red on Brain WavesThe color red is not particularly strong in terms of the strength of gamma oscillations it generates in the brain.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·February 9, 2021·7 min readColor Is in the Eye of the BeholderThe evolution of red color vision in a species of butterfly is linked to coordinating rhodopsin tuning.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·September 29, 2020·3 min readHow the Brain Processes ColorNovel technology allows researchers to understand how a fruit fly's brain processes color.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesVisual Neuroscience·June 8, 2020·4 min readOur visual world of color is largely incorrectPeople are oblivious to change when color is removed from peripheral vision. Research reports the brain likely fills in for much of our perceptual experience when it comes to seeing the entire picture in color.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·June 27, 2019·3 min readDeciphering how the brain encodes color and shapeVisual 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.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 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
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·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
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·March 19, 2018·7 min readWe Can Read Each Other’s Emotions From Subtle Changes in Facial ColorResearchers reveal people are able to correctly identify, with 75% accuracy, expressions of emotion in others based on subtle changes in color around the nose, eyebrows and chin.Read More
