Color Perception and the Brain
July 8, 2008
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, The Mind & Neuroscience
Color isn’t just aesthetic, it’s neurological. Armand DiMele traces how sharp shapes trigger the amygdala’s danger response, why color preferences vary by culture and temperament, and how personal history, like a caller who stopped wearing red after her grandmother’s death, shapes what we can and cannot stand to see.