Colours... Did you know that...

Even though brightly coloured objects are allies in the case of those children with Asperger´s suffering hypo-sensitivities; the majority of children seem to dislike garish and fluorescent colours, showing priority by softer tones. ( Bogdashina, 2004)

In fact, research carried out by Marine Grandgeorge and Nobuo Masataka ( 2016) reported how the preference for the “yellow” colour was very low in children with Autism in comparison with neurotypical children, whereas the preference for green and brown colours was elevated.

As the authors suggest, the yellow colour has one of the highest luminance value among other colours tested on that occasion.( red, blue, green , pink and brown ); a factor that should not be dismissed.

The hyper-sensitivity of children with Asperger’s to luminance might give an explication about these findings. Our eyes are provided with three different types of cone cells for colour perception: L (red), M (green), S (blue). When yellow is perceived L and M should be involved, what implies the most heavily sensory-loaded perception of any type of colour, causing fatigue. ( Masataka, 2016)