As many people sit at the wheel of their car, they are certain they know what color is. It's the red traffic light in front of them, the garish yellow hatchback in the next lane, or the green verge ...

A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when you see illusory—or false—colors after staring at real colors for a longer ...

'Do we see colors the same way?' is a fundamentally human question and one of great importance in research into the human mind. While impossible to answer at present, researchers take steps to ...