Novel illusions suggest that the brain does not separate perception of color from perception of form and depth. Skip to main content. Scientific American. May 1, 2008. 9 min read.

Many cultures have the same color words or categories, said Jonathan Flombaum, a cognitive psychologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In the first experiment, they asked people to look ...

If colors are just internal labels, then as long as everything gets labeled, why should your brain and my brain use the same labels? Richard Dawkins recently wrote a nice little piece on color ...

Study shows brain’s response to colors News. Feb 6, 2009 - 12:00am. Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press Writer. Washington? ... reading warning labels, concluded Zhu, ...

Color agnosia can occur after damage to visual areas in the brain, usually caused by stroke. MAH didn’t have any obvious brain damage, though, and he had been this way long before the stroke.

Whether you saw it as blue/black or white/gold, it all comes down to the way your brain perceives color. A vision scientist explains. Transcript. Credits. Support Provided By Learn More.

We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes detect light waves corresponding to red, green, and blue, while dimness or brightness is detected by photoreceptor rods. Many non-mammalian ...

New research offers a possible explanation for how the brain learns to identify both color and black-and-white images. The researchers found evidence that early in life, when the retina is unable ...