Those Helsinki University researchers said that in the same room, looking at the same picture on the same monitor some of the staff saw the dress as white-gold, while others saw it blue-black. And their explanation had to do with the color temp you mention - the background of the image hints that the picture is taken in yellowish light. So, for some people the sensory system takes that background hint seriously, and tries to auto-correct the dress colours accordingly. And for other people the background lightning is interpreted slightly diffrently, which leads to perceiving the dress colours as black and blue.

But, yeah - I don't know =) I didn't really follow this discussion very deeply, I just read some commentaries and the interview of those scientists.

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