200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
You Are Not So Smart
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The Magic of Color Constancy
The brain constructs reality which is to say not only are we limited by what the brain interprets from a limited range of senses but also the brain doesn't always give you the raw information from those senses. This is where color constancy comes in color constancy is the tendency for a color of a familiar object to appear the same under any lighting condition. A yellow banana always seems to be yellow even when in objective reality it isn't reflecting as much yellow light as the brain is telling you that it is you are observing the effects of matter on your brain not the matter itself.
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