While the eye can take in hundreds of thousands of different shades and colors and the brain can process them, noting even small differences in shades, the way language is used to describe color ...

A new study suggests the way a language divides up color space can be influenced by contact with other languages. Tsimane' people who learned Spanish as a second language began to classify blue and ...

If you've ever walked out of a hair color appointment with an entirely different hue than the one you envisioned; you are not alone. Between choices like honey, strawberry, caramel, and mocha, ...

Another entry for the ever-expanding category of "the brain is a very strange place" posts. A paper in PNAS suggests that what we call a color may influence how we perceive it. The image below shows a ...

People perceive colors categorically. But what is the role of the environment (or nature)--specifically, language--in color perception? The effects of language on the way people categorize and ...

All artists have something to say, crafting their messages — in works abstract or realistic, in two dimensions or three — through the visual languages of color and form. But Michelle Bowen went a step ...