In the talk, Beau asks the audience to focus on the dot between the green and red background for about thirty seconds and switch to the identical pictures of a desert. After doing the procedure the left picture appears to be under green light while the right image is in red light. Beau states that the phenomenon is cause by the plasticity of the brain to change the normality of vision. However, I think of it as the overstimulation of blue and yellow cones of the left eye and red cones on the right eye. Cones are cells in the retina that interprets colours (Lilienfeld, 2015, pg144). When I focus on the green and red colour, the cones in my retina that is responsible for that colour are stimulated and as I look at them for a long period of time the cones will become overstimulated. The desert images seems like they are under red and green light because the over stimulated cones are still trying to recover and go back to their
In the talk, Beau asks the audience to focus on the dot between the green and red background for about thirty seconds and switch to the identical pictures of a desert. After doing the procedure the left picture appears to be under green light while the right image is in red light. Beau states that the phenomenon is cause by the plasticity of the brain to change the normality of vision. However, I think of it as the overstimulation of blue and yellow cones of the left eye and red cones on the right eye. Cones are cells in the retina that interprets colours (Lilienfeld, 2015, pg144). When I focus on the green and red colour, the cones in my retina that is responsible for that colour are stimulated and as I look at them for a long period of time the cones will become overstimulated. The desert images seems like they are under red and green light because the over stimulated cones are still trying to recover and go back to their