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26-09-2018 | Original Article

Stripping #The Dress: the importance of contextual information on inter-individual differences in colour perception

Auteurs: Domicele Jonauskaite, Nele Dael, C. Alejandro Parraga, Laetitia Chèvre, Alejandro García Sánchez, Christine Mohr

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2020

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Abstract

In 2015, a picture of a Dress (henceforth the Dress) triggered popular and scientific interest; some reported seeing the Dress in white and gold (W&G) and others in blue and black (B&B). We aimed to describe the phenomenon and investigate the role of contextualization. Few days after the Dress had appeared on the Internet, we projected it to 240 students on two large screens in the classroom. Participants reported seeing the Dress in B&B (48%), W&G (38%), or blue and brown (B&Br; 7%). Amongst numerous socio-demographic variables, we only observed that W&G viewers were most likely to have always seen the Dress as W&G. In the laboratory, we tested how much contextual information is necessary for the phenomenon to occur. Fifty-seven participants selected colours most precisely matching predominant colours of parts or the full Dress. We presented, in this order, small squares (a), vertical strips (b), and the full Dress (c). We found that (1) B&B, B&Br, and W&G viewers had selected colours differing in lightness and chroma levels for contextualized images only (b, c conditions) and hue for fully contextualized condition only (c) and (2) B&B viewers selected colours most closely matching displayed colours of the Dress. Thus, the Dress phenomenon emerges due to inter-individual differences in subjectively perceived lightness, chroma, and hue, at least when all aspects of the picture need to be integrated. Our results support the previous conclusions that contextual information is key to colour perception; it should be important to understand how this actually happens.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Stripping #The Dress: the importance of contextual information on inter-individual differences in colour perception
Auteurs
Domicele Jonauskaite
Nele Dael
C. Alejandro Parraga
Laetitia Chèvre
Alejandro García Sánchez
Christine Mohr
Publicatiedatum
26-09-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2020
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1097-1