Amazing colours

I have been finding out what arrangements need to be made (and steps taken) for a colour blind student who will shortly be taking the Cambridge English: Starters Test in a school here in Cantabria.  Cambridge English Language Assessment have procedures for dealing with many different special needs

Obviously, because colour plays an important part in the Young Learner Tests, colour blind candidates would be at a great disadvantage if they took the test without these considerations being made.

Back in March, I wrote about types of colour blindness and recommended loading pictures onto Vischeck to see what they look like to a colour blind student.

Recently, I was reading about the Stroop Effect in a hotel magazine.  Click on this link to take a test and find out for yourself what the Stroop Effect is!

Fun and intriguing I found!

I then fed words from the Stroop Effect Test into an online tool (Vischeck didn't seem to be working so I found another site to do this: http://asada.tukusi.ne.jp/cvsconv/

http://informationbombardment.com/fun-stuff/stroop-effect/

Deuteranope vision

Tritanope vision

Notice how the words 'black' and 'purple' almost disappear if you have Tritanope vision!

And, of course, I found a great talk on Ted.com.  Fascinating.  I don't know if I could stand to have colour sounds playing in my head all day, but I suppose that Neil Harbisson's life has been enriched by being able to 'perceive' colour in a different way.

Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a world in grayscale, Harbisson can hear a symphony of color -- and yes, even listen to faces and paintings

And of course, we often hear about colours being related to moods.  I found this image on pinterest the other day and that inspired me to bring together all my colour related pictures and videos and information and write this post!