Study shows that color plays musical chairs in the brain

Research shows for the first time that the brain can latch on to color and assign it to a different object

		VIDEO: Research at the University of Chicago explains for the first time how color latches on to a portion of the brain, separate from the object to which it had been... Click here for more information.

Color is normally thought of as a fundamental attribute of an object: a red Corvette, a blue lake, a pink flamingo. Yet despite this popular notion, new research suggests that our perception of color is malleable, and relies heavily on biological processes of the eye and brain.