Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Paradoxical impact of memory on color appearance of faces

  • Maryam Hasantash,
  • Rosa Lafer-Sousa,
  • Arash Afraz,
  • Bevil R. Conway

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10073-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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What is the function of color vision? Here, the authors show that when retinal mechanisms of color are impaired, memory has a paradoxical impact on color appearance that is selective for faces, providing evidence that color contributes to face encoding and social communication.