Your Color Perception Changes With the Seasons

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By Carl Engelking
Aug 18, 2015 10:25 PMNov 19, 2019 9:29 PM
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(Credit: Victoria Shapiro/Shutterstock) The shifting seasons alter the way we feel about the world, but as it turns out, they also literally change the way we see the world. Researchers from the University of York in the United Kingdom recently discovered that our vision automatically adjusts the way we perceive colors, particularly yellow, to correspond with the greenery of summer or the grayness of winter.

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