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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Neural correlates of perceptual color inferences as revealed by #thedress.
2020 · cited by 9
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.
2021 · cited by 2
The research confirms that #thedress and similar ambiguous stimuli involve color constancy problems where different observers estimate different illuminants.