Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Changes in color perception can occur for several reasons. One common factor is structural shifts in the eye. For instance, a ...

Newswise — Research on the perception of color differences is helping resolve a century-old understanding of color developed by Erwin Schrödinger. Los Alamos scientist Roxana Bujack led a team that ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Bevil Conway, an artist and neuroscience researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is crazy about color. He particularly loves watercolors made by the company Holbein. “They have really nice ...

University of Rochester scientists say the first images of living human retinas have shown color perception differs dramatically among people. The researchers found the number of color-sensitive cones ...

A project to improve data visualization ended up overturning a century-old model of color space that underpins industry standards for color everywhere from digital displays to paint. The opportunity ...

Rearing experimental animals under special illumination, researchers have found new evidence that early visual experience is indispensable for the development of normal color perception. Rearing ...

First there was "the dress," then there was the sneakers, now there's a debate over the color blue. If you've ever argued with a friend over whether something is blue or green, you're not alone. A new ...

In many areas, the environment fluctuates greatly depending on the season, and animals living in those areas must adapt to the changing environment. A research group has found that color perception of ...

Color perception drifts away from neutrality during wakefulness and is restored during sleep, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Wednesday, June 9, 2010, in San Antonio, Texas, at ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

Discover how seasonal changes influence color perception changes, particularly in defining yellow shades, due to environmental shifts. There’s a seemingly infinite variety of colors in the world, but ...