Because of adaptation, observers exposed to different environments should perceive color in significantly and systematically different ways, including differences in achromatic settings.

Evidence

Normal variations in color vision V: Simulations of adaptation to natural color environments (PMC (Vision Research))

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: To what extent does environmental visual adaptation (e.g., living in extreme high- or low-chroma landscapes) shift an individual’s implicit cognitive associations between achromatic light and moral valence?; White has special status among colors, experienced as achromatic or an absence of hue, and its perception is not explained by a simple null point of cone-opponent mechanisms but involves calibration to the visual environment. — What is white?; Perceived white reflects a response norm that varies with adaptation, and individual differences in perceived white shrink when observers share a common white adapting stimulus — the white point is calibrated by the visual environment. — Adaptation and perceptual norms in color vision (+2 more)

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