New theories on #theDress shed light on spatial filtering

Erica L. Dixon and Arthur G. Shapiro used a series of experiments to show how the 2015 dress phenomenon may be explained by variations in a simple spatial filter that extracts relevant information from the environment. In early 2015, a photo of a dress was posted to the blogging site Tumblr and went viral. The author of the post said that she and her friends were debating over the color of the dress – some of them saw it as blue and black and some of them saw it as (Read more...)

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