Visual Studio developers love to tweak their IDEs so they look just right and are very finicky about their choices -- just look at the fuss that met Microsoft's decision to switch to ALL-CAP menus.

A new discovery has unraveled why we sometimes see colors that aren't there. The phenomenon of "color afterimages" is when you see illusory—or false—colors after staring at real colors for a longer ...

Music may be something that you hear, but it does have a visual element. That visual aspect is different for everyone—I see melodies and harmonies as shapes, with a chord laid out as a fragment of its ...

Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive. A study from Dartmouth in collaboration with Amherst ...

Jonathan Flombaum brings up a scene re-enacted in hardware stores every weekend. Someone confidently selects a can of touch-up paint for a hallway or bedroom wall, returns home— and finds it doesn't ...

Color awareness has long been a puzzle for researchers in neuroscience and psychology, who debate over how much color observers really perceive. A new study finds that people are aware of surprisingly ...