👁️ 🧠 This visual trick demonstrates how our #eyes and #brains prioritize contrast over accuracy.

When you watch the dot move across different backgrounds, your light-sensing cone cells become temporarily fatigued, creating an "afterimage" that makes the dot look like a #color that isn't actually there.

👉 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-color-is-this-dot-new-illusion-demonstrates-weird-vision-quirk/

#vision #science #neuroscience #biology #optics #psychology #illusion