Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...
Recent scientific explanations have reignited public curiosity about how we perceive color, particularly purple, a shade that doesn’t have its own place in the light spectrum. It isn’t a wavelength of ...
Do colors trigger unique brain responses? And do different people have the same brain responses to colors? In a new JNeurosci paper, Michael Bannert and Andreas Bartels, from the University of ...