Credit: Wellcome Collection (CC BY 4.0)In an effort to answer the question of whether different people perceive colours in the same way, neuroscientists in Germany have revealed we share the same responses in visual areas of the brain when seeing certain colours. Do colours elicit area-specific response patterns?” write the authors in the paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience. The researchers used an approach called ‘shared response modelling’ to determine which brain responses to certain colours were common among the participants. “We can’t say that one person’s red looks the same as another person’s red. But to see that some sensory aspects of a subjective experience are conserved across people’s brains is new,” says co-author Dr Michael Bannert from the University of Tübingen, Germany.