Jessica+Z14

Jessica Z 2013 - 2014
 * THE HUMAN BRAIN AND HOW IT SEES COLOR**

The purpose of this study was to determine how the brain processes colors, words, and other things, and which ones are more dominant. When the eye sees a color (objects absorb all colors except for the ones corresponding to the color humans see), a message is sent to the brain, which then processes what it sees. Each time the brain receives something new, a signal is sent between neurons (strengthening their connection), and the brain slightly changes its physical structure. Colors were written in different colors not corresponding to the word, and test subjects were given a certain amount of time to read the color and then the word, and the number of mistakes made were recorded. It was determined that when the words were being read, the participants made considerably less amounts of mistakes than when color was being read. This was because people read words more frequently than they “read” color, so the brain becomes better at reading words, causing fewer mistakes as well.
 * ABSTRACT**

An improvement for this experiment would be to use people of the same age and gender as test subjects. That way, the results would be more accurate because they would depend only on the words and colors on the page instead of test subject qualities. However, based on this improvement, a future experiment could be to determine what age, gender, and other physical qualities of the test subjects lead to the best and worst results.
 * EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS**

To read the complete ISP Paper for this experiment, click on the PDF file link below.