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 ...

Children of the 1990s may remember the irresistible pull of an iconic ad slogan in its early days, perhaps in between VH1 countdowns and episodes of Whose Line is it, Anyway? Amidst a cascade of ...

There are billions of neurons in the human brain, and scientists want to know how they are connected. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Alle Davis and Maxine Harrison Professor of Neurosciences ...

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 ...

My brain food recommendation for this post is Purple Cauliflower. Cauliflower contains vitamin B6 and folate, two methylators that are vital to making neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine ...

This video lets you peek inside the human brain, highlighting the neuronal fibers that enable communication across the brain. This communication is vital to all brain functions, including learning, ...

A picture of a sneaker which some users see as grey and some as pink, is resurfacing on social media with users claiming that the color people see shows which side of their brain is dominant, and ...

Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI) have decoded brain maps of human color perception. The findings, published today in Current Biology, open a window into how color processing is ...