The Importance of Visual Priority in Artificial Vision

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After two years and a few thousand subjects this is what Pascal found the photo of the dress is missing a lot of color information which makes it a rare perfectly ambiguous color image in fact he said on the internet maybe one in 10 billion images are like this. The more time subjects had spent exposed to artificial light the more likely they interpreted the dress as black and blue because there's more blue wavelengths in that kind of light the brains of night owls simulate the image as if it were lit artificially so people who disagree with you don't just seem wrong but crazy, says Wallish.

When facing a novel and uncertain situation, the brain secretly disambiguates the ambiguous without letting you know it was ever uncertain in the first place, leading people who disambiguate differently to seem iNsAnE.

This episode is about why we so often don't understand why we disagree, which leads us to disagree even more, and we explore that through the science behind The Dress. We look into why some people see it as black and blue, others see it as white and gold, and how the scientific investigation of why that is led to the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs, and how the scientific investigation of socks and Crocs may be, as one researcher explains, the nuclear bomb of cognitive neuroscience.

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