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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.

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·February 28, 2019·6 min read

Making Sense of How the Blind ‘See’ Color

Researchers suggest blind and sighted people experience visual phenomena differently, but share a common understanding of them.

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·November 23, 2022·4 min read

Picky Eaters Are Put Off by Food Depending on Plateware Color

The color of the plate food is served on influences taste perception, a new study reports.

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·May 22, 2018·4 min read

The Way You See Color Depends on the Language You Speak

Researchers reveal our cultural experiences and language we speak may impact how we perceive colors.

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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·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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·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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Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·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.

This image shows the outline of a head with the brain exposes. There are colored dots under the image.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·June 2, 2015·4 min read

Why It’s Hard To Remember Colors

Researchers explain why we have trouble recalling specific shades of color.

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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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·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.

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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.