If you ask a three-year-old to color a tree, they may very well use orange for the trunk and garish blue for the leaves, or any other psychedelic combination. Normally, educators based their taste for bright colors on the powerful imagination of children, but a study from the University of Wisconsin has reached a very different conclusion: children do not know what the real colors of things are .
According to the psychologist Vanessa Simmering, director of the research, until the age of five we do not acquire the ability to associate the objects of the surrounding reality with a certain color . Hence, when it comes time to paint, the little ones randomly choose the tones that most attract their attention , which are logically the brightest and most strident.
