How stable is perception in #TheDress and #TheShoe?
Drissi-Daoudi, Doerig, Parkosadze, Kunchulia and Herzog investigate how stable an ambiguous colour percept is once it forms. The group had already shown that the first encounter with the dress photograph strongly biases what a person sees there, which points to one-shot learning rather than to a fixed trait. This paper extends the question to a second image, of a shoe, that produces a similar split, and finds the same one-shot pattern. Hiding large parts of the image with occluders biased the percept, and for most observers the percept did not change when the occluders were removed. Tracked over fourteen days, some observers experienced switches and the percept was largely stable for the majority. The consequence for a reader is uncomfortable and worth stating plainly: what you see in one of these images was set, to a considerable degree, by the accident of how you first met it.
Drissi-Daoudi, Doerig, Parkosadze, Kunchulia and Herzog investigate how stable an ambiguous colour percept is once it forms. The group had already shown that the first encounter with the dress photograph strongly biases what a person sees there, which points to one-shot learning rather than to a fixed trait. This paper extends the question to a second image, of a shoe, that produces a similar split, and finds the same one-shot pattern. Hiding large parts of the image with occluders biased the percept, and for most observers the percept did not change when the occluders were removed. Tracked over fourteen days, some observers experienced switches and the percept was largely stable for the majority. The consequence for a reader is uncomfortable and worth stating plainly: what you see in one of these images was set, to a considerable degree, by the accident of how you first met it.
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169, 1-5. One-shot learning extends to the shoe image; occluders biased the percept and it persisted after their removal; over fourteen days the percept was largely stable. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2020.01.007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.01.007