Is My Blue Your Blue?

There’s a new color perception test on the block: “Is My Blue Your Blue?”, developed by neuroscience and AI researcher Patrick Mineault, asks participants to explore the differences in how individual people perceive color. It’s more than you might think! The experiment draws back the curtain on the surprisingly subjective nature of color perception: did you know factors like culture, language, and even time of day can alter how we see shades of blue and green? For instance, while some may see turquoise as definitively “green”, others would disagree completely and call it “blue”. The test also gives some background on the history of color perception, particularly that blue was absent from ancient texts, which suggests that color recognition evolves with language. It’s “the dress” all over again!