Asymmetries in blue-yellow color perception and in the color of 'the dress'.

ABSTRACT: The perception of color poses daunting challenges, because the light spectrum reaching the eye depends on both the reflectance of objects and the spectrum of the illuminating light source. Solving this problem requires sophisticated inferences about the properties of lighting and surfaces, and many striking examples of 'color constancy' illustrate how our vision compensates for variations in illumination to estimate the color of objects (for example [1-3]). We discovered a novel property of color perception and constancy, involving how we experience shades of blue versus yellow. We found that surfaces are much more likely to be perceived as white or gray when their color is varied along bluish directions, compared with equivalent variations along yellowish (or reddish or greenish) directio

SUBMITTER: Winkler AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4489998 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature