This seemingly simple area of study offers insights into all sorts of behavior--from attention to decision-making.Neuroscientist Bevil (...)
This simple area of study offers insights into all sorts of behavior--from attention to decision-making.Neuroscientist Bevil Conway thinks about color for a living. An artist since youth, Conway now spends much of his time studying vision and perception at Wellesley College and Harvard Medical School. His science remains strongly linked to art--in 2004 he and Margaret Livingstone famously reported that Rembrandt may have suffered from flawed vision--and in recent years Conway has focused his research almost entirely on the neural machinery behind color.Read Full Story