Color plays an important role in conveying visual information. For example, color can help the observer find an object in a cluttered environment. Although the human eye can distinguish millions of ...

When Luisa Maffi was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she helped redefine what we talk about when we talk about color. Together with her ...

In a new study, biology and psychology researchers show how existing color vocabularies constrain future options for efficient color vocabularies. Suppose two speakers of the same language are playing ...

Being able to perceive a wide spectrum of colors takes more than great eyesight. Your color perception depends on several factors, including your color vocabulary, your home country, and the languages ...

Estonian vocabulary for color, taste and smell is strikingly similar to that of German in both form and meaning, a Tallinn University doctoral thesis shows. "We can speak of shared sensory experiences ...

If you’ve ever been frustrated when choosing a paint color, you’re not alone. This task is more difficult for men, who find it harder to distinguish between slight color differences. Source: Wikimedia ...

Color plays an important role in conveying visual information, but the language we use to express what we see is limited. Recent studies show that color terms used in Japanese also change over time.

Suppose two speakers of the same language are playing a guessing game where each has the same color swatches, and Player 1 tries to get Player 2 to guess a hue by naming the color. If the second ...