Neuroscientists and Psychophysics

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Neuroscientist michael karlovich and he is sending pictures of crocs to another neuroscientist pascal wallish back at the lab because they're on the verge of a breakthrough in the field of psychophysics. When you feel like you can actually create that experiment when you have that eureka moment that says oh wait i think i know how we can do this it can lead to a rush a mad dash, as Michael did with his Croc Experiment. He spent an hour standing in front of a crocs display for about an hour just being like what colors are there? It's very weird so most of this is now gone but there was a strip do

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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