Blame your brain (and not your eyes) for the way you see the dress. — -- Everybody, chill. There's a scientific explanation for why #TheDress looks black and blue to some people and white and ...

For example, if your brain assumes the lighting on the dress is very dim, it will assume the dress itself is highly reflective, or white and gold, Williams said. But if your brain assumes the ...

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Say you see the dress as white and gold — like me — but you know that somebody else, Taylor Swift, for example, perceives it as blue and black. At that moment, the brain is doing something rem ...

Update: An eyewitness who saw the dress speaks The same kind of system is found in cameras, and is called white balance. That allows the camera to do the same thing the brain does – deciding ...

Have you seen this dress? Depending on whom you ask, it might be black and blue or white and gold ... sent to the brain, and translated as images. The two types of photoreceptor cells are known ...

What colors are in this dress? That simple question has divided people into two irrationally passionate camps: white and gold and blue and black. From this day on, the world will be divided into ...

Do you see a dress? Perfect. Now, can you determine the dress’s color? Is it white? Is it blue ... “It’s a brain thing.” What shall be annotated in history books as the dress phenomenon ...

If you think the dress is in shadow, your brain may remove the blue cast and perceive the dress as being white and gold. If the photograph showed more of the room, or if skin tones were visible ...