The many colours of ‘the dress’

Description

Yes / There has been an intense discussion
among the public about the colour
of a dress, shown in a picture posted
originally on Tumblr (http://swiked.
tumblr.com/post/112073818575/
guys-please-help-me-is-this-dress
white-and; accessed on 10:56 am
GMT on Tue 24 Mar 2015). Some
people argue that they see a white
dress with golden lace, while others
describe the dress as blue with black
lace. Here we show that the question
“what colour is the dress?” has more
than two answers. / The full text was made available at the end of the publisher's embargo, 14th May 2016

Links & Downloads

1. Gegenfurtner KR, Bloj M and Toscani M (2015) The many colours of ‘the dress’. Current Biology. 25(13): R543-R544.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7980
3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.043

Tags

Colour perception

Dress colour

Lightness

Chromaticity

Senses

Individual differences

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/7980
Date	29 June 2015
Creators	Gegenfurtner, K.R., Bloj, Marina, Toscani, M.
Source Sets	Bradford Scholars
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article, Accepted manuscript
Rights	© 2015 Elsevier (Cell Press). Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy., Unspecified