Colour and the Mind

The research arena on Colour and the Mind covers scientific inquiries addressing colour and perception. Issues that fall within this purview range from colour in the brain, colour perception, colour recognition, colour associations, colour memory, colour preferences, colour and emotions to colour and language. Possible topics may include but are not restricted to:

• Colour in the brain: The construction and representation of colour in the visual system
• Crossmodality: Colour, taste and smell—The phenomena of synaesthesia
• Changing colour perception—In the early childhood and old age
• Recognizing objects by colour

• Colour and language
• Goethe’s legacy: Colour and emotions
• Colour associations
• Internal colours: Colour memory, dreams, drugs and trips
• Colour aesthetics
• Colour as a medium of imagination and understanding
• Colour preferences
• Perceptual phenomena, e.g. colour contrast, colour constancy, etc.