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What color is your living room? Beige? Maybe eggshell. Or is it cream? Buff. Ecru, khaki, or warm desert sand?

Chances are you have no idea. And you wouldn't be able to pick the shade out of an

off-white lineup. But before you go blaming your eyes, a new study suggests that the fault

lies in our brains, which failed to commit to memory the actual colors we see. The findings are in the

Journal of Experimental Psychology. To figure out why we're not so good at recalling

hues, researchers first had subjects look at what's called a color wheel on a computer screen. The wheel

included 180 shades in a circle, and subjects were asked to find what they considered the best

example of, say, the color blue. It turns out, most people agree on which shades are most representative of a given

color, like a robin's egg blue for the truest blue, or a parakeet-like color is the greenest green.

Shades like teal, which falls between green and blue, got the fewest votes. Then came the

memory bit. A second group of volunteers looked at the computer screens.

This time, a colored square would appear briefly,

and about a second after it disappeared,

subjects were asked to find that color on the wheel.

The result, people tended to skew their answers

toward the colors that had previously been identified

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