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...This is the first study to pinpoint a robust sex difference in the red-green axis of human color vision,? says Yazhu Ling, co-author of the study. ?And this preference has an evolutionary advantage behind...
Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling, neuroscientists at Newcastle University conducted a color-selection experiment with 208 volunteers between the ages of 20 and 26. Participants were asked to move a mouse cursor as quickly as possible to their preferred color from a series of paired, colored rectangles, controlled for hue, saturation and lightness. Each person completed three separate tests, then was retested two weeks later...
...Ling speculates that the color preference and women's ability to better discriminate red from green could have evolved due to sex-specific divisions of labor: while men hunted, women gatherered, and they had to be able to spot ripe berries and fruits. Another theory suggests that women, as caregivers who need to be particularly sensitive to, say, a child flushed with fever, have developed a sensitivity to reddish changes in skin color, a skill that enhances their abilities as the ?emphathizer...
...Ling says that she and her colleagues plan to expand their research in future studies to other cultures - not only British and Chinese - and age groups, including infants, to further test the nature-versus-nurture concept...
...Backed by an international marketing campaign, Sentosa Cove homes are nearly sold out-more than half of the buyers are foreigners-and are generating a little bit of buzz that is music to the ears of the city fathers. When Hong Kong housewife and property investor Betty Ling first saw advertisements for Sentosa Cove three years ago, her Singaporean friends warned her "only ghosts live there." But she says she chose to buy in Singapore instead of Bali or Phuket because, "It's an international city and you have all the infrastructure of city life. You can feel safe there...