How the Brain Sees Color
Summary
A feature of color vision is that color is as difficult to interpret as language. Color is not in light. Color is in the brain. It is a construction, just as the meaning of words is constructed. Without the neural processes of the brain, people will not be able to understand colors of objects, any more than they would understand the meaning of a language that they hear for the first time.
Another aspect of color vision is that different features of an object, such as its color, shape, its motion, its distance from an individual, are interpreted by different parts of the brain. The knitting together, or “neural gluing” of all those different features so that a unified object can be perceived, is a very complex process in the brain, which is not well understood.
Keywords: color vision, neural processes, neural gluing, language processing, color blindness, perceptions of color
