For an enlightening perspective on how primates acquire color vision, consider baby monkeys. These infants’ ability to recognize basic colors in different environmental settings depends on their prior ...

Colour perception, an essential aspect of human vision, enables us to interpret and interact with our environment reliably despite fluctuating illumination. At the core of this capability is colour ...

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 ...

Imagine that you are watching a crowded hang-gliding competition, keeping track of a red and orange glider's skillful movements. Our brain uses separate circuits to achieve such outstanding tracking ...

Rearing experimental animals under special illumination, researchers have found new evidence that early visual experience is indispensable for the development of normal color perception. The ...

People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

The colors we see may get increasingly dull as we get older, scientists have found. The pupils of younger people's eyes react differently to bright colors than those of older folk, a new paper in the ...

Dogs perceive colors differently than the way humans do because of how their eyes are built. But are dogs color blind? The answer isn't entirely black and white. Speaking to Newsweek, Dr. Jerry Klein, ...

The analysis of visual color and color variation is an important exercise for numerous markets and industries. Here, we describe in detail protocols and optimal practices for dependable and sturdy ...

Bevil Conway, an artist and neuroscience researcher at the National Institutes of Health, is crazy about color. He particularly loves watercolors made by the company Holbein. “They have really nice ...