Visual Perception: Scientific Lessons Learned From “The Dress” Phenomenon

Authors

  • Jaikishan Jayakumar, PhD Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences and Melbourne Brain Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17140/OOJ-1-104

Keywords:

Colour, Illusion, Visual perception

Abstract

Our visual percept across the population is relatively similar with little or no ambiguity in what we perceive. A red flower on a green plant is still perceived as red flower by everyone. So when social media threw up a picture of a dress which was not agreed by everyone about the colour, it created an exception to our general perceptual stability and created an enigma for visual scientists to explain this apparent contradiction to relatively stable percept. This mini review aims to explain “the dress” phenomenon and provide theories explaining this illusion that has confounded many vision scientists.

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Published

2016-04-17

How to Cite

Jaikishan Jayakumar, PhD. (2016). Visual Perception: Scientific Lessons Learned From “The Dress” Phenomenon. The Ophthalmology, 15–16. https://doi.org/10.17140/OOJ-1-104

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Volume 1 Issue 1 2015

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