Color is Blind: An interview with Prof Alfonso Caramazza, Harvard´s Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology

Formed by trillions of photons produced by fractions of seconds by the sun, light travels through the atmosphere destined either for collision or if lucky, an encounter with the retina. There, millions of red, green, and blue sensing -cones will dress her in colors while they open the doors to the human brain. But what about freedom or love? concepts whose silhouette cannot be discerned by the sense of sight? And what happens when we are given reference by what our eyes can see but nevertheless color concepts keep unfolding in infinite layers, each with a meaning of its own? How is it possible for born blind people to “see” color? What is Cognitive Neuropsychology? And what is it for? Meet our closing episode’s star scientist, Alfonso Caramazza, Daniel and Amy Starch Professor of Psychology and Director of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Lab at Harvard University’s Department of Psychology.

Dare to jump in a fascinating journey inside the human brain. Prof. Caramazza will guide us as a soft light- lantern through a universe of flexible living pathways of hills and valleys connected by nudges of sensorial and intellectual experiences. Echoing its way with vibrant impulse, hiding blindfolded between labyrinthine walls, Color awaits to be discovered.

Profile Alfonso Caramazza: https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/alfonso-caramazza

@cogneuropsylab

Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory: https://cogneuro.psychology.fas.harvard.edu

Profile Alfonso Caramazza (Mind Brain Behavior Interfaculty Initiative): https://mbb.harvard.edu/people/alfonso-caramazza-0

Alfonso Caramazza on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hvvrK8cAAAAJ&hl=en

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