Colour Perception

The March talk will be given by Dr Christopher Witzel who will be talking about his research into colour perception. 

Is our perception and understanding of the world determined through genetically fixed and preprogramed mechanisms? Or, are they shaped through learning and experience with the physical and social environment? The answers to these questions are an integral part of our concept of human life. They will define our potential to adapt and hence which roles we can potentially play in the physical and social systems we live in.

Dr Christoph Witzel is a lecturer in Psychology at the University of Southampton whose main focus of work has been the role of language and experience in colour perception. More broadly, he is interested in how culture and experience shape automatic assumptions to form our subjective reality.