The Color Consistency Mechanism

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color constancy mechanisms what you're seeing is the end result of about a 30 step visual processing cascade and the bottom line is that two different people might do this processing differently. People who see more sunlight some morning purse people uh-huh larks are more likely to see the dress is white and gold let's say you were like me like a night owl you get up at like kind of noon and stay up at 10-4 m we have an in-genest light so you're gonna assume yellow light. What happens if you subtract yellow light from gray blue blue? The sky becomes bluish kindergarten color science and it matters everything else being equal.

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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