You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination ...

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 ...

What color is a tree, or the sky, or a sunset? At first glance, the answers seem obvious. But it turns out there is plenty of variation in how people see the world — both between individuals and ...

Mouse cortical layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons were labeled with 7-color Tetbow. A combination of 7 fluorescent proteins (mTagBFP2, mTurquoise2, mAmetrine1.1, mNeonGreen, Ypet, mRuby3, tdKatushka2) was ...

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 to ...