So colours like black, blue, and green are glossed as cool colours, while lighter colours like white, red, orange and yellow are glossed as warm colours. Dark roughly translates as cool in those languages, and light as warm. Some languages like Dani, spoken in Papua New Guinea, and Bassa, spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone, only have two terms, dark and light. But the colours they hear also differ from case to case.ĭifferent languages and cultural groups also carve up the colour spectrum differently. Synaesthesia is often described as a joining of the senses – where a person can see sounds or hear colours. Take for instance people with synaesthesia, who are able to experience the perception of colour with letters and numbers. The ‘untranslatable’ emotions you never knew you had.The perception of colour mainly occurs inside our heads and so is subjective – and prone to personal experience. But the distribution and density of these cells also varies across people with ‘normal vision’, causing us all to experience the same colour in slightly different ways.īesides our individual biological make up, colour perception is less about seeing what is actually out there and more about how our brain interprets colours to create something meaningful. Some people can’t see differences in colours – so called colour blindness – due to a defect or absence of the cells in the retina that are sensitive to high levels of light: the cones. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way. The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours.
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