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Asked by brainbox001 to Ben, James, Jen, Michael, Susanna on 18 Mar 2013.
Question: hello whats your favorite coluor
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Michael Craig answered on 18 Mar 2013:
Hi Brainbox001,
I’d probably say blue. Colours are an interesting topic in memory. It’s been suggested that we can only remember 4 colours at once in our (short-term) working memory system. This is the memory system that allows us to remember things like a series of numbers when we are rehearsing them over and over until we write them down. Long-term memory has a huge capacity for different colours!
Michael
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Susanna Martin answered on 18 Mar 2013:
I always struggle to answer questions like these because I can’t make a decision! I’m gonna go with Green because it’s the colour of my bedroom! mind you if you asked me this again next week i’d probably change my mind.
some of my favourite psychology experiments are about colour, one is how the brain processes colour quickly, it’s called the stroop test and in brief you have a list of colours Red,Blue,Yellow,Green etc, but you print them out in different colours so the word Red is printed in blue etc, then you ask people to read the word, basically the brain is so good at recognising the colour that it can be really hard to concentrate and say the word which is written down rather than the ink colour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect -
Jen Todd Jones answered on 18 Mar 2013:
Hey!
Mine is also blue, props to Mike 😉 I like words related to colours, there’s a term called language relativity, and it means the way you learn language can sometimes influence the way you see the world. We have one colour for blue in English, which we sometimes call light and dark blue, but in Russian there are two entirely different words for light and dark blue, and because of this their brain is actually trained and is better at differentiating between different blues – better than an English person is!
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