My Blue Is Your Blue: Different People’s Brains Process Colours in the Same Way

We All See Color Differently, But Our Brains Process Color the Same

Learn more about the activity patterns in the brain, which differ for different colors in a surprisingly similar way.

Do you see what I see? People share same brain responses for colors, study finds

Do colors trigger unique brain responses? And do different people have the same brain responses to colors? In a new JNeurosci paper, Michael Bannert and Andreas Bartels, from the University of Tuebingen, explored color representation in the human brain to address these questions.

Your red is my red, at least to our brains

Despite philosophical debates, colors like red may spark similar brain activity across individuals, new research suggests.

My blue is your blue: different people’s brains process colours in the same way

Neuroscientists can predict what colour a person is looking at using a machine-learning tool trained on the brain activity of others. Neuroscientists can predict what colour a person is looking at using a machine-learning tool trained on the brain activity of others.

Do You See the Same Colors That I Do?

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Your Red Is My Red: Shared Brain Codes for Color

Human brains share common patterns of activity when perceiving colors, suggesting universal neural coding of color. Researchers compared brain responses from one group of participants to predict what colors another group was viewing, finding high accuracy in decoding both color and brightness.