The team behind the study created what might be the most accurate mathematical representation of photoreception ever.

The S-cones make up only 8–12 percent of all cones in the retina and are almost completely absent in the absolute center of ...

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 ...

A head-scratching optical illusion challenges the perception of color and how the brain plays tricks on us. In an image created by the UK contact lens vendor Lenstore, a series of lilac letters ...

The interplay between language and colour perception has emerged as a pivotal topic in recent cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistic research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the words we use ...

What is color theory? Learn how modern geometry has confirmed physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 100-year-old color theory, explaining how humans perceive colors and how Los Alamos National Laboratory, ...

Technology used by UC Berkeley researchers to see a new color may allow for development of new ways to see and research eye diseases. The machine, dubbed Oz, was previously used to shoot lasers into ...

Color perception seems self-evident. Red, green, blue, yellow, pink and violet seem obvious to most people, but between dark red, blood red and scarlet, the nuances are more subtle. Lightspark Design ...

Odors seem to impact our visual perception of colors, adjusting our perception of a ‘neutral’ color. A recent study first authored by Ryann Ward of Liverpool John Moores University (UK), has revealed ...

What color do you associate with nature? With cold? With hot? If you answer ‘green’, ‘blue’, and ‘red’, then congratulations – your color associations are the same as the majority of other people.