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Optical illusion makes your brain see colours

A new optical illusion is making its way around the internet and has people questioning. The photo shows a plate of delicious looking red strawberries, or at leas they seem red. The catch, however, is that there aren’t any red pixels at all in the picture, only gray.



Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a professor of psychology at Ritsumeikan University in Japan, created the image that has people scratching their heads. He studies visual illusions along with making them, with his entire website filled with various other creations.

The explanation for the image of strawberries appearing red, while there isn’t any actual red in the picture can be explained by color constancy. It’s the same circumstance that had people seeing “The Dress” in two different colors.

Essentially, the brain is telling you the strawberries are supposed to be red because that’s what they normally are.

source: inverse.com
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