• They were asked to name the colours of the words (as opposed to the colours described by the words) as quickly and correctly as they could.

    ECONOMIST: Cognitive disenhancement

  • The most common type is grapheme-colour synaesthesia where people perceive words, letters and numbers as distinct colours.

    BBC: News

  • Waves presented as bright colours on the charts caused actual damage on Fair Isle, with the sea smashing a wall at the 120-year-old South Lighthouse and washing the debris several hundred metres inland.

    BBC: Highlands & Islands

  • By integrating the individual pressure distributions, the software can produce a visual picture of the flow over the car's various components with the pressure changes shown as different colours in the flow pattern (see illustration).

    ECONOMIST: CAR DESIGN

  • It will see a huge array of lights flash and change colours as they are respond to the data from the observatory.

    BBC: Abertay University

  • These trucks are decked out in classic Indian style: half fairground carousel and half Hindu temple, with vermilion and sunshine yellow as the favoured colours.

    BBC: Apple harvest in the Himalayan foothills

  • It was a test his players passed with flying colours as they extended their winning run in all competitions to 10 matches and more than two months.

    BBC: London Irish 42-12 Gloucester

  • The images show the men carrying a safe along a corridor, with one raider wearing a red and white scarf - the same colours as those sported by Fleetwood Town.

    BBC: Fleetwood Town FC burglary: Images of offenders

  • John Bull complains 'Look here, this dark horse you are trying to palm off on me is coming out in his true colours as soon as I begin to rub him down!'

    BBC: In pictures: David Lloyd George election posters

  • Mr Paul thus shows his colours as an advocate of Austrian economics a resurgent school of thought that, unlike market monetarism, has not been doing much to change the minds of most mainstream economists but, unlike neo-chartalism, has built up a broad constituency on and through the web.

    ECONOMIST: Heterodox economics

  • Each has its own traditions, symbol and colours, as well as its own church and palio museum.

    BBC: Tuscany's medieval-style festival

  • Van Gogh translated Gauguin's sober sketch into the muted colours he saw as more typical of Gauguin.

    ECONOMIST: Van Gogh and Gauguin

  • This upper layer is available in standard camouflage colours, such as yellow (for deserts) and green (for jungles).

    ECONOMIST: Monitor: A good kind of gas-guzzling | The

  • And by the 1980s many Japanese buyers had an instinctive preference for pastel colours in art as well as in fashion.

    ECONOMIST: Art auctions

  • But the colours are not as bright as on other types of screens, and the company's research manager Michael Banach acknowledges the technology at the moment is most likely to be used as a back-up screen which kicks in when batteries run low, rather than the main display.

    BBC: Bend me, shape me: Flexible phones 'out by 2013'

  • The researchers now want to look at deeper sleep, where the most vivid dreams are thought to occur, as well as see whether brain scans can help them to reveal the emotions, smells, colours and actions that people experience as they sleep.

    BBC: Scientists 'read dreams' using brain scans

  • Mr Livingstone was speaking as he launched his new campaign colours and logo for the 4 May poll.

    BBC: Ken Livingstone

  • The pattern and colours denoted affiliations such as school, regiment or sporting club.

    ECONOMIST: Men's clothing

  • Sending large amounts of information down an optical fibre is done by encoding many separate streams of data as pulses of light of different colours, so that they can travel along the fibre without interfering with each other.

    ECONOMIST: Optical fibres could carry more information in the future

  • Holmes was also impressed with Clohessy, who is on loan from Gillingham, as he scored his second goal in Salisbury colours.

    BBC: Holmes hoping for Salisbury run

  • Its members are known as druids, and they wear robes of various colours depending on their rank.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South East Wales | Volunteer honoured at eisteddfod

  • Philosophers, by contrast, may wonder which serious thinkers, as she seems to suggest, have ever nailed their colours to the crude idea that deciding for ourselves means deciding outside any rules or without regard to others.

    ECONOMIST: Bioethics

  • Since most image-processing operations, such as sharpening up a fuzzy document, or altering the colours in a photograph, involve looking at the value of a particular pixel and then altering it depending on the value of adjacent pixels, this is a real advantage.

    ECONOMIST: Analogue computing

  • And when he changed colours, I knew I would never see anything as astonishing again.

    BBC: The end of a wandering way of life?

  • Trained as graphic designers, they kitted out the space in bright colours and covered the walls with framed photographs of the neighbourhood.

    BBC: A renaissance beyond Cartagena��s historic walls

  • As the historical rallying point in battle, the Queen's Colours represent that link.

    BBC: Queen to attend historic ceremony

  • The real fun begins with paint, as Mr Ball describes in rich detail the development of artists' colours from medieval to modern times.

    ECONOMIST: Science and history of colour

  • Also I will be very proud to wear the Belgian colours on my helmet during these official practice sessions, as it means a lot to me.

    BBC: Jerome D'Ambrosio & Esteban Gutierrez win F1 test roles

  • With the saxophonists Gigi Gryce and Charlie Rouse, he formed a particularly interesting front line, with the tonal colours of the horns offering a range of pastel hues as well as the expected brilliance.

    NPR: 'Blue Note Records, The Biography'

  • The rest of the price difference is accounted for by the psychological impact of a higher price on a typical British buyer who would mistake nought-grade sandpaper for luxury as long as it were priced high enough or offered in a variety of colours.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

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