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Lookup NU author(s): Stacey Aston, Professor Anya Hurlbert, Bradley Pearce, Dr Matt Rudd, Dr Andreas Werner
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The colors that people see depend not only on the surface properties of objects but also on howthese properties interact with light as well as on how light reflected from objects interacts withan individual’s visual system. Because individual visual systems vary, the same visual stimulus mayelicit different perceptions from different individuals. #thedress phenomenon drove home thispoint: different individuals viewed the same image and reported it to be widely different colors:blue and black versus white and gold. This phenomenon inspired a collection of demonstrationspresented at VSS 2015 which showed how spatial and temporal manipulations of light spectraaffect people’s perceptions of material colors and illustrated the variability in individual colorperception. The demonstrations also explored the effects of temporal alterations inmetameric lights, including Maxwell’s Spot, an entoptic phenomenon. Crucially, the demonstrationsestablished that #thedress phenomenon occurs not only for images of the dress but also forthe real dress under real light sources of different spectral composition and spatial configurations.
Author(s): Aston S, Denisova K, Hurlbert A, Olkkonen M, Pearce B, Rudd M, Werner A, Xiao B
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Perception
Year: 2020
Volume: 49
Issue: 11
Pages: 1235-1251
Print publication date: 01/11/2020
Online publication date: 12/11/2020
Acceptance date: 30/08/2020
Date deposited: 08/01/2021
ISSN (print): 0301-0066
ISSN (electronic): 1468-4233
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620963808
DOI: 10.1177/0301006620963808
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