Left or right, different color
2006/02/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria
Experts at the University of California have seen a color on the left or on the right. To reach this conclusion, they have related the perception of color with language.
In the brain, they are mainly processed in the left hemisphere, both the language and the signals collected by the left part of the retina of the eye. When objects located to the right of the left side of the retina were collected, the researchers considered that the colors of the right are influenced by language.
To demonstrate this hypothesis, some images were placed to several people: generally it was a green squares placed in circle, while there was a blue square or another green tone and the time it took to separate it was measured. When the frame to be separated was to the left, they needed the same time to differentiate both the blue and the green frame of different tone, but when it was to the right the blue box separated more quickly.
As the researchers have explained, blue and green are more easily distinguished by their different name. And it is that the same test is repeated working in the field of the language and there are no differences when distinguishing the colors.
