Physical colors, i.e. reflected or emitted lights entering the eyes from a visual environment, are converted into perceived colors sensed by humans neurophysiological mechanisms. These processes involve both three types of photoreceptors, LMS cones, and spectrally opponent non-opponent interactions resulting activity rates ganglion lateral geniculate nucleus cells. Thus, color perception is phe...

Abstract In the contemporary discussions concerning unconscious perception it is not uncommon to postulate that content and phenomenal character are ‘orthogonal’, i.e., there no type of which essentially conscious, but instead, every representational can be either conscious or not. Furthermore, this merely treated as a thesis justified by theoretical investigations, supported empirical consider...

Definition The possibility that naming colors, either in a single instance or habitually over a lifetime, alters. color perception Color perception and color communication When we communicate about the colors of scenes and objects comprising our visual experience, what we see informs our choice of words. A question that has interested many cognitive psychologists is whether the color words we u...