The Psychology of how color relates to the body and mind outlines that a growing child's brain is stimulated more by the black and white contrast than that of any color.
Therefore, for optimal brain stimulus results, a brightly colored newborn baby's room may need a 'black and white' geometric infusion integrated in the design!
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However, colors also play an important role in the human brain's healthy development. Sir Isaac Newton demonstrated that light travels in waves, when he shone white light through a triangular prism the different wavelengths refracted at different angles, enabling him to see the colors of the rainbow (the spectrum).
When light strikes any colored object, the object will absorb only the wavelengths that exactly match its own atomic structure and reflect the rest - which is what we see. In essence, we don't see the object but rather the light reflecting off of it.
As light enters the human eye, the wavelengths do so in different ways ultimately influencing our perceptions; in the eye's retina they are converted into electrical impulses that pass to the hypothalamus (the part of the brain governing our hormones and our endocrine system).
The color blue is the color of our bright sky and vast oceans, because of this it is embedded in our psyche to experience serenity at the sight of the color blue. Studies show that depression follows when we lack seeing the color blue for extended periods of time.
As we interact in our color speckled modern world, although we are unaware of it, our eyes and our bodies are constantly adapting to these wavelengths of light and being influenced by them on a subconscious level.
