Remember the famous debate over the color of the dress? Well, these berries may look red, but they’re not. They’re gray. The illusion hinges on something called color constancy, and it's pretty darn trippy: (From 2019) 📸 Akiyoshi Kitaoka
Never before had scientists observed such stark differences of opinion over the color of an object. A popular hypothesis for why peoplewas color constancy—a perceptual phenomenon by which an object appears to stay more or less the same color, regardless of the lighting conditions under which you see it. It's an incredible feature of human vision, albeit one that researchers have long used against you in the form of visual illusions.
As with the dress, color constancy factors into the explanation. But unlike that dress, nearly everyone perceives Kitaoka's berries as red. There's no ambiguity, no fervent disagreement, no philosophical fits. Just a captivating deception, and a robust one at that: Even when you know there are no red pixels, you can't help but see the berries as red.
The Dress illusion was similarly robust. Mostly. People who saw the outfit as blue and black tended tosee it as blue and black. But the dress could also be mercurial. Every once in a while, without warning, the colors a person perceived might switch, triggering still more existential spasms and additional scientific intrigue.
For the latest episode in our series on the science of illusions, we invited Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman to help us tackle color constancy: how it enables you to see an object's true color, even in changing light; how it also makes you susceptible to deception; and what researchers think might be going on in viral photos of ambiguous color illusions like The Dress. Or The Shoes.
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