Purple Isn’t Real, Science Says. Your Brain Is Just Making It Up.

You might say it’s just a pigment of your imagination ...

Mini Human Brains Reveal How the Brain Wires Itself

Scientists rebuilt human brain circuits in the lab and discovered that the thalamus acts as a central organizer of cortical wiring. The findings offer new insight into how brain networks form and why ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Purple isn’t real? Wild science claim says your brain fakes the color

Physicists and vision scientists are lining up behind a provocative claim: the rich color we call purple is not a property of light at all, but a story the brain tells itself. Light in the real world ...
Medical Xpress

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 ...
Psychology Today

Your Brain Cells Up Close and In Color

Detail of a pyramidal cell. Dendrites are red and orange. The axon is blue. Source: Allen Institute for Brain Science Neuroscience got its start more than 100 years ago when Santiago Ramon y Cajal and ...