Science news articles about 'color perception'

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception....

... a carrot signifying the color orange, is delayed in both color perception and also in other perceptual domains. If humans used this conceptual knowledge immediately, it would override perceptual cues ...

... Silvanto said. "In summary," the researchers wrote, "our results show that in the absence of V1, color perception may be possible via the intact hemisphere." The more targeted TMS method the team ...

... the brain non-invasively in a new way with magnetic stimulation, researchers have shown that they can restore some experience of color where before there was no visual awareness whatsoever.

... , published in the March 2009 issue of Genome Research, may enhance scientists' understanding of how color vision evolved in early vertebrates over the last 450 million years of evolution. "It was ...

... to perceiving other people's emotions. Researchers have found that the way we initially think about the emotions of others biases our subsequent perception (and memory) of their facial expressions.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even among young voters receptive to Barack Obama and Sarah Palin's historic candidacies, race and gender may hurt—and help—their reputations, according to new University of Michigan ...

... physiological benefits they may provide, including superior color perception and gamete formation. "Like in humans, ... you eat, the better you can see color, the better mates you choose, and the redder ...

... of a fish eye. Every morning and evening they change the lens’s capacity to refract light in order to enhance color perception during the day and night vision when it’s dark.

... mind. Seniors quite literally perceive new technology differently than younger adults do. Changes in acuity, color perception and susceptibility to glare affect the way they see a ...

... and cognition. Specifically, older adults experience reduced visual acuity, color perception and susceptibility to glare. They also encounter a greater difficulty hearing high-pitched sounds and ...