Brain uses decision-making region to tell blue from green
Early visual brain areas, language areas not crucial for color distinction
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THE BLUES Most people call the color on the left green and the three colors on the right blue. A brain area called the middle frontal gyrus is involved in making this distinction, a new study finds.
C.M. Bird et al/PNAS, adapted by S. Egts