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Color is an essential part of how we experience the world, both biologically and culturally. One of the earliest formal explorations of color theory came from an unlikely source — the German poet, artist, and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who in 1810 published Theory of Colours (public library; public domain), his treatise on the nature, function, and psychology of colors. 
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Neil Harbisson can only see shades of grey. So his prosthetic eyepiece, which he calls an “eyeborg”, interprets the colours for him and translates them into sound. Harbisson’s art sounds like a kind of inverse synaesthesia. But where synaesthetes experience numbers or letters as colours or even “taste” words, for example, Harbisson’s art is down to a precise transposition of colour into sound frequencies. As a result, he is able to create facial portraits purely out of sound, and he can tell you that the colour of Mozart’s music is mostly yellow. Liz Else caught up with him at the TEDGlobal conference.
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Scientists have created a yogurt drink that may one day detect a range of illnesses from stomach ulcers to cancer by changing the color of your fecal matter.
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The way different languages view colors is a curious topic. Articles about COLOR: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=color
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The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work, suggest computer simulations with virtual people.
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Famed violinist Itzhak Perlman sees a deep forest green whenever he plays a B-flat on his Stradivarius' G string. The A on the E string is red.
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Scientists have found that some people have the ability to hallucinate colors at will -- even without the help of hypnosis.
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In this exquisitely preserved fossil moth is a glimpse of life's colors almost as they appeared 47 million years ago.
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How do we know that your "red" looks the same as my "red"? For all we know, your "red" looks like my "blue." In fact, for all we know your "red" looks nothing like any of my colors at all.
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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-we-see-color-colm-kelleher There are three types of color receptors in your eye: red, green and blue. But how...
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lauren west's comment,
September 9, 2013 7:11 PM
This article was about how male and females differ in naming colors. Females tend to have a lot more names for colors than men do. It also seems as if men like to name colors gross names(ie crap, mucus, baby vomit) and women seemed to give colors much more pleasant names (dusty teal, Barbie pink, peacock blue). This data shows that men tend to generalize colors more than women. It does not really give a reason for why this happens.
lauren west's comment,
September 9, 2013 7:15 PM
This article was a lot shorter that I expected it to be. I wish it had went into more detail and given a reason for why men and women differ. However, I did like the interactivness of it. Going through and reading the names of some of the colors was interesting.
Emma Gaines's comment,
April 27, 2017 9:49 PM
This article is about how males and females have different ways of naming different colors. Females tend to have a lot more colors on their spectrum and like to be more specific whereas a male would see any shade of read and just think red. Boys also tend to name colors more putrid names and girls tend to name them softer more pleasant names. I liked this article very much I thought it was extremely interesting and I never thought about it before but now I realize how true it really is
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But Noë's more interested in color as an ecological property -- a feature of the way light and surfaces interact. Like Goethë, he believes that color is fluid, changing, open to interpretation. We think of it as stable, but it's not. It can look one way under one light, one way under another, different when you turn it different ways or notice a new highlight. By his estimation, "It’s not... intrinsic to the surface of the leaf that it is green. It's greenness is in the way it behaves in relation to lighting."
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The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part II)
American linguist Benjamin Whorf, suggested that our language determines how we perceive the world. Different cultures with independent histories often end up with the same colors in their vocabulary. Of course, the word that they use for red might be quite different – red, rouge, laal, whatever. Yet the concept of redness, that vivid region of the visual spectrum that we associate with fire, strawberries, blood or ketchup, is something that most cultures share. Source: http://goo.gl/y4Ozx Part 1: http://goo.gl/3TghN Articles about COLOR: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=color Via Andrea Graziano
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Black-and-white judgments may be more literal than you might expect. A new study finds that people who view information on a black-and-white background are less likely to see gray areas in moral dilemmas than those who get the information alongside other colors.
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What exactly does it mean to be color blind? People have varying misconceptions about this–the most common forms of color blindness doesn’t mean that you can’t perceive any color, or that you see the entire world in grayscale. What it really means that their total color space is skewed.
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“I have this rather freakish gift of seeing letters in color,” novelist Vladimir Nabokov told a BBC interviewer in 1962. “It’s called color hearing. Perhaps one in a thousand has that.” Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=7&tag=neuroscience
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Someone with the condition known as grapheme-color synesthesia might experience the number 2 in turquoise or the letter S in magenta. Now, researchers reporting their findings online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on November 17 have shown that those individuals also show heightened activity in a brain region responsible for vision.
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Squid and octopus can dramatically change color to hide from predators, offering insights into the secrets of invisibility.
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We think of a physical object's being a certain color as a solid, immutable property (grass is green, lemons are yellow, et cetera). However, the way our brains see and process color is largely determined by the language we learned as an infant.
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