Strictly Ballroom finds brain’s colour centre
The successful Australian film, Strictly Ballroom, has been used in a breakthrough scientific experiment to locate the colour processing centre in the human brain.
The movie helped researchers at The Vision Centre to find regions of the brain that respond particularly strongly to colour.
Their work could in future help in the treatment of patients who have become colour blind due to brain injuries or a stroke.
Erin Goddard, a researcher in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Vision Science, said that in non-human primates there’s a proposed ‘colour processing centre’ called V4.
But those who’ve asked ‘where is V4 in the human brain?’ have come up with different results.
She said that Strictly Ballroom was chosen because, as a movie, there’s a lot going on visually that will engage the brain, and, in light of the subject matter, it has a lot of vivid colours.
