Brains process colors similarly across people
Scientists find that different people's brains process colors in the same way, suggesting a common neural representation for hues.
Why it matters
- Helps understand how the brain processes sensory information.
- Implications for understanding perception and consciousness.
By the numbers
- Study involved 15 participants.
- Machine learning model predicted colors based on brain activity.
The big picture
- Commonalities in how different brains encode color.
- Suggests universal perception of color.
What they're saying
- Skepticism about whether this proves everyone sees the same colors.
- Mention of tetrachromats who see more colors.
Caveats
- Small sample size of 15 participants.
- Doesn't prove identical color perception, just similar processing.
What’s next
- Further research with larger sample sizes.
- Exploration of color perception in people with different types of color vision.