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Published online 15 October 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news061009-13
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Even black-and-white bananas look yellow
Experiment reveals how expectation interferes with perception.
When we look at a banana, does our brain tell us it looks yellow, even if it isn't? A recent study shows that it does.
Psychologists at the University of Giessen, Germany, report in Nature Neuroscience that our perception of an object's colour depends on our memory of its typical colour.
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