Will This Trick Your Brain? (Color TEST)
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Further Reading:
Number of discernible colors for color-deficient observers estimated from the MacAdam limits https://www.osapublishing.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?uri=josaa-27-10-2106
Afterimage of Perceptually Filled-in Surface http://www.cns.atr.jp/~kmtn/pdf/ssyksnScience01.pdf
The primary visual cortex fills in color http://www.pnas.org/content/101/52/18251.full
Microsaccades: Small steps on a long way http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698909003691
Molecular Genetics of Human Color Vision: The Genes Encoding Blue, Green, and Red Pigments http://www.blueconemonochromacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Science-1986-Nathans-193-202.pdf
Comparing levels of crosstalk with red/cyan, blue/yellow, and green/magenta anaglyph 3D glasses http://cmst.curtin.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/05/2010-11.pdf
Spooky Science: Discovering the Eerie Colors behind Afterimages http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-afterimages/
Plants and colour: Flowers and pollination http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030399208002442
The influence of pigmentation patterning on bumblebee foraging from flowers of Antirrhinum majus. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23420080
Why Are So Many Bird Flowers Red? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521733/
Mighty Mutualisms: The Nature of Plant-pollinator Interactions http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/mighty-mutualisms-the-nature-of-plant-pollinator-13235427
The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase http://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.261.3.1
@devvparker6900
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I like the periodic table though
@balajirepair
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
nice asapascirnce is always right
@nicoledawson_phi
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I'd love to use this video for a class I'm to kids about colour, however the bit about gender means I wont, as its a bit sexist there, and I don't want to fill their heads with unhelpful gender norms. Bummer because the rest of the video is great
@FernLi-xh8un
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Bruh I just saw black and white
@KingBersch
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I was staring at the green dot and I was sitting there for like 30 seconds and my eyes were starting to water, but it didn’t work. Why don’t you make me stay there for at least 30 seconds my eyes literally started to water which means crying I don’t know.
@Bigyeah12345
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
The first one does not work
@MxCartney_Lou
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I saw the original color for a split second
@HappySmilingDog-d7u
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
what? its still black and white, wdym???
@ForbiddenScribe
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I must disagree with the beginning test. I stared at the green dot nonstop until changed and the whole time I saw color and noticed the color changed to gray.
But don't take this too badly when watching a video of groups of people tossing a ball to each other and a gorilla jumps in the middle I was able to count the people that entered and notice the gorilla at the same time.
Perhaps it has something to with with my ability to flawlessly multi-task on three different situations simultaneously (reading, singing and writing)
@goofyman570
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Look at the frame of the first image and then the second. They are different images. There is no illusion.
@zhiandionisio503
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
The first question didn’t work haha😂
@wulananastasia1340
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Im too lazy to try to understand whatever thats means too
@hosniandiary2488
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I’m gonna be honest. The part where the image ‘changes back to normal’ but its still black and white is fake. You cab prove and test yourself by watching that part again, but do not look at the screen when the colors are inverted, and the effect will be the same, when you didn’t even look at the green dot
@ImAlwaysHere1
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Primary COLORS are Red, Green, and Blue. Primary PIGMENTS are Magenta, Yellow, and Cyan (in art class, the PIGMENTS Blue, Red, and Yellow are close enough) COLOR is a property of light, and is what we see. PIGMENTS are a way to reflect those COLORS (light wave frequencies to our eyes.) If they would teach this in school, it would be a lot less confusing. Is white the absence of color, NO, not really. White is all the colors being reflected to your eyes. Black is actually the absence of COLOR, but the answer will change depending on who you ask and what they mean by COLOR.
@watermouth0072
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
After-imaging never works on me, I wonder why…
@Zepteev
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
What
@Loafteabun3
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I like yellow cuz it express cheerfulness
@jimflagg4009
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I could only see the color for about 1/2 a second.
@Mr.Waffles1234
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
No you werent
@dinopiggy773
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Ok
@CIAchanlol
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I like cyan more than red red and don’t be Stereotypic because not all girls like pink and I would rather choose Brown than pink
@Wondercool923
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Pov: when the illusion didn't work
@SpheresVA
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
1:43 PINK FLOYD REFERENCE REAL?!
@abjornsen81
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I never saw the color in the B&W. Apparently I have extra cones, so I'm wondering if that plays a part…
I also prefer blues to reds and I'm female. I'm always breaking these things. 😅😅😅
@yo9979
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Actually I saw black and white at first
@Jerauld
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I just seen black and white those things never work for me
@katia8136
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Did this man just tell me that bees are red green color blind?! 🤣🤣
@papaparodox0384
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Wait mine didn't go back to color on the first test ?
@iliesnicole9362
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I learned more on YouTube then my 8 years of school XD
@OZZY9669
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
ZAAAMMN
@adv8743
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
THATS YELLOW NO MATTER WHAT
@epic6272
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
For me, the image didn’t. Maybe because I blinked.
@xXxLilxXxScenexXx
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
This doesn't work on me. Are my eyes broken?
@seansteele6139
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
ok wait im I the only one that see the periodic table as all black and white
@kkistebest2876
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Mine didnt. Is that bad?
@ObligatoryBook
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
It went black and white for me immediately, there was no after imaging. Is that supposed to happen?
@ActiveAdvocate1
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I don't think this works on me. I'm 90% blind (from birth), and my eyes wander of their own accord, so I can't focus on thee dot. I'll jerk my eyes back to it, but I still see black and white when you turn everything normal again after the colour swap. Colour blind is the only kind of blind I'm NOT, by the way.
@TDYT103
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
2021 Dec 4
@enoll218
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
it didnt work
@aliy132
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
I saw it in grey the first time, then I tried it again and realized I skipped too much of the first part of the video and the second time I stared at the dot longer, and that's when it took half a second for my mind to switch back to grey. (very short amount of time)
@bigpenjiman00
January 24, 2026 at 3:58 am
Im color blind
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