Sensation and Perception Blog

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What is the color of this dress? 
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Remember "the dress", a hugely controversial issue that was all across social media? So, how do we know what the actual color of the dress is? Scientists have done research and how our brain perceives these colors. 

According to Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who teaches at Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the differences in color perception are probably due to assumptions the brain makes about the illumination of the garment so that it will appear the same under different lighting, a property known as color constancy. People who saw the dress as a white-gold color probably assumed it was lit by daylight, so their brains ignored shorter, bluer wavelengths. Those who saw it as a blue-black shade assumed a warm, artificial light, so their brains ignored longer, redder wavelengths. Those who saw the dress as a blue-brown color probably assumed neutral lighting, the researchers said.Interestingly, older people and women were more likely to see the dress as white and gold, as opposed to blue and black. This could be because older people and women may be more likely to be active during the day, while younger people and men may be more likely to spend time around artificial light sources.



Color psychology   is the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior. Color influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food.

The colour centre is a region in the brain primarily responsible for visual perception and cortical processing of colour signals received by the eye, which ultimately results in colour vision. The colour centre in humans is thought to be located in the ventral occipital lobe as part of the visual system, in addition to other areas responsible for recognizing and processing specific visual stimuli, such as faces, words, and objects.
What I think: 
Color perception absolutely blows my mind. It is crazy to think that our brains work in this manner. We do not realize the many things it may percieve differently. Such an interesting topic that I would most definately want to learn more about.
"In visual perception, a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."
-Joseph Albers

Sources:
https://www.livescience.com/21275-color-red-blue-scientists.html
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/josef_albers_305580
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/science/the-science-behind-the-dress-color.html


















Comments

  1. UnknownFebruary 12, 2018 at 8:51 PM

    Hi Krystina! I thought your blog was very well written.. I also included the dress into my blog as well! Next time maybe you can make your sources an actual link. You can do that by highlighting the URL you copied and pasted and clicking link on your blog page before ;you publish it. Besides that I really enjoyed reading your post

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  2. UnknownFebruary 12, 2018 at 11:29 PM

    Krystina you have a very nice blog. I happened to read the article as well and its crazy how it just goes to show you just how different we as people can see the same thing. I see it as white and gold and in the article it says i am definitely wrong. It just goes to show you what you see may not always be what it is.

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  3. Aylin NeriFebruary 13, 2018 at 12:41 PM

    Hey Krystina! I LOVE your blog! It is so unique and girly! I enjoyed reading your blog post about Sensation and Preception. I also included the argument of the blue and black dress.! I remember when it was all over social media, and my family and I would all have a talk about how it was blue and black,, not white and gold. One of the most recent ones like the blue and black dress would be the shoe (Brand: Vans) argument. Everyone was arguing about whether it was blue and white or pink and white! It's crazy how the lighting of a picture can affect an object and fool the eyes at times! I am looking forward to reading your future blog post!

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