Question

Objects don’t actually have color; it’s our brains that interpret it.


True


False

Answer 1

True.

Explanation: color as we experience it is a percept — a brain interpretation of the pattern of light wavelengths reaching our eyes. Physically, surfaces have spectral reflectance curves (they absorb some wavelengths and reflect others), and light has a spectrum, but "red" or "green" are labels for how our photoreceptors (cones) and visual system translate those signals. Because perception depends on the illuminant, the observer’s photoreceptors (and their number/sensitivity), and context, the same spectral stimulus can look different to different observers or under different lighting.