Pascal could not stop thinking about the potential of studying why brain saw the image differently. He shifted his research focus at NYU to tackle the problem while the dress was still going viral. This is a good moment if we're going to understand it to talk about color constancy because it's a fundamental part of what we are exploring in these next two episodes.
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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