{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Forder L"],"funding":["European Research Council"],"pagination":["42364"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5301231"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7"],"pubmed_abstract":["Since at least the 17<sup>th</sup> century there has been the idea that there are four simple and perceptually pure \"unique\" hues: red, yellow, green, and blue, and that all other hues are perceived as mixtures of these four hues. However, sustained scientific investigation has not yet provided solid evidence for a neural representation that separates the unique hues from other colors. We measured event-related potentials elicited from unique hues and the 'intermediate' hues in between them. We find a neural signature of the unique hues 230?ms after stimulus onset at a post-perceptual stage of visual processing. Specifically, the posterior P2 component over the parieto-occipital lobe peaked significantly earlier for the unique than for the intermediate hues (Z?=?-2.9, p?=?0.004). Having identified a neural marker for unique hues, fundamental questions about the contribution of neural hardwiring, language and environment to the unique hues can now be addressed."],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pubmed_title":["A neural signature of the unique hues."],"pmcid":["PMC5301231"],"funding_grant_id":["283605"],"pubmed_authors":["Bosten J","He X","Franklin A","Forder L"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"A neural signature of the unique hues.","description":"Since at least the 17<sup>th</sup> century there has been the idea that there are four simple and perceptually pure \"unique\" hues: red, yellow, green, and blue, and that all other hues are perceived as mixtures of these four hues. However, sustained scientific investigation has not yet provided solid evidence for a neural representation that separates the unique hues from other colors. We measured event-related potentials elicited from unique hues and the 'intermediate' hues in between them. We find a neural signature of the unique hues 230?ms after stimulus onset at a post-perceptual stage of visual processing. Specifically, the posterior P2 component over the parieto-occipital lobe peaked significantly earlier for the unique than for the intermediate hues (Z?=?-2.9, p?=?0.004). Having identified a neural marker for unique hues, fundamental questions about the contribution of neural hardwiring, language and environment to the unique hues can now be addressed.","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 Feb","modification":"2021-02-20T20:34:28Z","creation":"2019-03-27T02:36:14Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5301231","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28186142"],"doi":["10.1038/srep42364"]}}