There are limits to what humans can see and how quickly they can perceive it. Some of these limits are set by the manner in which the brain processes incoming information, and it is of particular ...

The world around you is colorful, but it wouldn't seem so bright without your brain. In fact, it is your brain that processes the color information from the color-sensitive sensors, or photoreceptors, ...

Researchers in Europe investigated the immediate effect of light, and of its color composition, on emotion brain processing using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results of their study show ...

One hallmark of vision in adults is the dichotomy between color and motion processing. Specifically, areas of the brain that encode an object's direction of motion are thought to receive little ...

“I think it’s a very powerful system,” he tells Co.Design, “and it’s completely underexploited.” Conway’s research into the brain’s color systems has clear value for designers and artists like himself ...

When we view natural images the colors we perceive are due to color information at every local patch of an image, rather than how colors interact when they transition from one point to another, ...

Color vision deficiency (CVD) affects a significant portion of the global population, undermining the ability to reliably discriminate between certain hues. Recent research has focused on both ...

Learn more about the activity patterns in the brain, which differ for different colors in a surprisingly similar way. The world around you is colorful, but it wouldn’t seem so bright without your ...