Neuroscientists can now predict what color you're seeing. The secret is surprisingly black and white.

Neuroscientists can now predict what color you're seeing. The secret is surprisingly black and white.

A new study published in The Journal of Neuroscience suggests that the human brain responds to colors in a way that is surprisingly consistent across different people. By comparing patterns of brain activity, researchers were able to predict what color a person was seeing using a model trained on brain activity from other people. The findings indicate that color perception, while subjective, may be tied to shared structures in the visual system.…