Context effects on the perception of saturation of fruit colors in still-life paintings

Perceptual ripening of oranges

“…In the case at hand, the memory color of the orange will also influence the perceptual interpretation ( Hansen et al, 2006 ) and work against an interpretation of the interreflections. We have also shown recently that seeing a collection of similarly colored objects increases the perceived saturation of the individual objects ( Toscani et al, 2023 ). The net exactly achieves this effect, as compared to an isolated orange.…”