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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceasar" data-source="post: 3322373" data-attributes="member: 26155">CJYour observations in your first paragraph bring back memories of an experiment on color and how one sees it and remembers it which I participated in when I was in college too many years ago in response to an ad on the college bulletin board.  We were given a deck of 40 or so cards with mixed shades of colors from the spectrum on them from far violet through far red and asked to give each color a descriptive name and then try to memorize the color with the name we gave it.  We would study them an hour each day for a week and try to memorize the colors and names we gave them for which we got one dollar for each day we studied them.  This continued for at least a month.  One day a week the tall, attractive young lady who was doing the experiment as a project for an advanced academic degree (MS or PhD) in some field of Psychology would see us and test our memories after shuffling the deck into a random sequence to see how well we remembered the colors with the names we gave them.  I tried to be creative in naming them but mostly I remember uninspired names like "robin's egg blue"As I recall, I did rather poorly but I heard that some of the other participants did OK.  What I do remember mostly is that the young lady had Clover Honey colored blond hair, Cornflower blue eyes and a Peaches and Cream complexion!Bob</blockquote>