How Color Tricks The Eye And Brain

There's more to the colors we see than what meets our eyes; thanks to the quirky nature of perception, colors seen in context with other hues can be completely transformed. In a trick that has to be seen to be believed, neuroscientist and artist Bevil Conway shows how the right background can turn blue into yellow in this clip from "What Is Color?", a program at the 2014 World Science Festival.

Original Program date: June 1, 2014

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