The dress that divided the Internet Bashny.Net

This is the second day a lot of people on a variety of sites discussing a very simple question. What color is this dress?
 



It would seem, what can there be difficult? But unity on this question is no: three quarters of respondents believe dress white and gold, and one quarter are blue-black. Agree, this is strange. What's the matter?

Let's just agree that it is not in the monitor. Of course, someone's monitor can be calibrated so that the person can't distinguish the orange from the tomato. But there is abundant evidence that different people (e.g. husband and wife) see this dress in different colors, looking at the same time on the same monitor.

The human brain determines the color of the object on the basis of the quantity of light that falls on the retina of the eye. This total brightness sum of light that radiates the object and light that is reflected the surface.

In the case of this dress, the brain of some people suggests that he was dealing with a less reflective surface and is formed in the minds of blue-black color. Other people will see white and gold dress, because their brain thinks that the surface of the object although it is in the shade, but reflects well.

This is very similar to the famous optical illusion Adelson. Chess cells, shown in the figure with letters a and B, colored in the same shade of gray, but due to the context (environment), seem to be completely different.
 



Well, let's say. But why is the brain different people interpreterpath the same way different? And moreover, one and the same person can see in your dress, first one color, and after a while is another!

Yes, it's an interesting question. And according to John Borg, the neurobiologist from Rockefeller University, science it occupies about the same position which it occupied in the famous film, determining whether there is life on Mars. In other words, science is not yet aware. "Scientists devote much time to the study of the eyes in General, however, the individual characteristics of the people are not particularly that interesting. In most cases, people's eyes work the same way, since we live in the same environment with the same shade of blue in the spectrum lighting".

However, some assumptions can be built. According to the same neuroscientist, people recognize the images from large to small, first in the brain is constructed the basic pattern, which then is broken down into smaller, detailed pieces. This process is strongly influenced by the previous experience of the person, and what it expects to see.

Each person has his own base of experience and expectations. For example, when you look at the infamous dress at his image can be influenced by what you looked up to him. In addition, you can think of any other previously seen dresses with a similar texture or cut, and it will make their adjustments in your impression. This phenomenon in psychology is called priming (the effect of the antecedent).published

What color do you see? Write your answers in the comments. Editorial opinion is divided)))

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Source: geektimes.ru/post/246508/