Individual differences in color constancy explain why people saw the dress differently

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Individual differences in color constancy—specifically how the brain estimates and discounts the illuminant in an ambiguous image—explain why observers perceived #thedress differently.

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Papers [4] and [8] directly investigate the phenomenon of #thedress and explicitly conclude that individual differences in color constancy and illuminant estimation underlie the conflicting color perceptions.

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Neural correlates of perceptual color inferences as revealed by #thedress.

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Retter TL, Gwinn OS, O'Neil SF, Jiang F, Webster MA. Neural correlates of perceptual color inferences as revealed by #thedress.. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.3.7

The study demonstrates that individual differences in perceiving #thedress as blue-black versus white-gold stem from higher-level color constancy inferences and blue-bias decoding.

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Explaining #theShoe based on the optimal color hypothesis: The role of chromaticity vs. luminance distribution in an ambiguous image.

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Morimoto T, Fukuda K, Uchikawa K. Explaining #theShoe based on the optimal color hypothesis: The role of chromaticity vs. luminance distribution in an ambiguous image.. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2020.10.007

The research confirms that #thedress and similar ambiguous stimuli involve color constancy problems where different observers estimate different illuminants.

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