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The many colours of ‘the dress’

Gegenfurtner, K.R.
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Bloj, Marina
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Toscani, M.
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2015-06-29
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Colour perception, Dress colour, Lightness, Chromaticity, Senses, Individual differences
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© 2015 Elsevier (Cell Press). Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
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Abstract
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.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7980
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Gegenfurtner KR, Bloj M and Toscani M (2015) The many colours of ‘the dress’. Current Biology. 25(13): R543-R544.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.043
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The full text was made available at the end of the publisher's embargo, 14th May 2016