Why do we see #TheDress differently?Episode 31← All Episodes
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Eagleman DM (2011). Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. New York: Pantheon.
Deutsch D. (1972). Octave generalization and tune recognition. Perception & Psychophysics. 11, 411-412.
Gegenfurtner KR, Bloj M, Toscani M. (2015). The many colours of ‘the dress’. Current Biology. 2015 Jun 29;25(13):R543-4.
Lafer-Sousa R, Hermann KL, Conway BR. (2015). Striking individual differences in color perception uncovered by ‘the dress’ photograph. Current Biology. 2015 Jun 29;25(13):R545-6.
Wallisch P. (2017). Illumination assumptions account for individual differences in the perceptual interpretation of a profoundly ambiguous stimulus in the color domain:“The dress”. Journal of Vision. 2017 Apr 1;17(4):5-5.
The Necker cube:
What do these blobs represent?
The McGurk effect:
The blobs above represent a dalmatian dog sniffing something on the sidewalk. His head is to the left and his rear to the right.
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