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A third study, led by Webster, found that peoples brains are more likely to filter out blue tones than other colors.That may explain why so many people interpreted the dresss blue stripes as white

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(An additional 11% saw it as blue and brown, and 2% fell into an other category.) Its clearly a crappy picture, but it turns out to be an extraordinarily powerful tool for visual neuroscientists, said Bevil Conway, a professor at Wellesley College and the senior author of that study

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