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Perceiving Colors

When talking about perceptions we are discussing the ability to be aware of something with our senses. Of the five senses, I would like to concentrate on just one: sight. In our eyes there are rods and cones. The rods are used for seeing in low light & used to detect motion; while the cones are used with brighter light and & used to detect color. Within the human eye there are 3 types of color receptive cones. There are cones for green, red, and blue. And it is a combination of those different color receptors that make up all the different colors we can see.              The YouTube channel Vsauce (which you can get to by clicking here ) has a very interesting video about color and how we can be tricked by computer monitors, television sets, etc. into thinking we are seeing the color yellow when we’re actually not . I’ve included the abridged version of that video below (and I encourage you to watch the whole video “ This Is Not Yellow ”):...