Visual experience is painted in color. A change in hue or saturation can dramatically alter our understanding of a scene and how we feel about it. Subjectively, color does not feel like an optional dimension to be extracted only when necessary, but an automatically represented property of our entire visual field. Here, we ask whether that subjective impression is true. Using a variant of an inattentional blindness paradigm, we showed observers snapshots of colorful scenes when unbeknownst to them, an image was presented that was either desaturated or hue rotated across an overwhelming majority of the images. Although observers fixated on these images long enough to identify and describe them, a large number of observers were completely unaware of these drastic color manipulations. These findings suggest that the amount of color observers perceive "in the blink of an eye" is drastically less than personal introspection would suggest.

中文翻译：

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眨眼间我们能看到多少颜色？

视觉体验是用颜色绘制的。色调或饱和度的变化会极大地改变我们对场景的理解以及我们对它的感受。主观上，颜色感觉不像是只在必要时才提取的可选维度，而是我们整个视野的自动表示属性。在这里，我们询问这种主观印象是否真实。使用无意失明范式的变体，我们向观察者展示了他们不知道的彩色场景的快照，呈现的图像要么是去饱和的，要么是在绝大多数图像上旋转的。尽管观察者注视这些图像的时间足够长以识别和描述它们，但大量观察者完全没有意识到这些剧烈的颜色处理。