Neuroplasticity in the human brain

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A few years ago, there was a huge debate on social medial about if a dress was either blue and black or white and gold. According to Bevil Conway, when looking at the picture of the dress, your eyes are trying to discount the chromatic basis of the daylight axis. As human, we are evolved to see in daylight. Daylight changes colors throughout the day. Pinkish red at dawn, blue-white at noon, and reddish at twilight. Oddly enough, this is why some people see the dress as blue and black and others see it as white and gold. Light enters the yes through the lens, where different wavelengths correspond to different colors. The visual cortex of your brain is the part that processes neural connection signals into an image.  Your brain figures out what color light is bouncing off what you're looking at and that's when the wavelengths kick in to tell you what color you see. Neuroplasticity are the things in the nervous system that mold and change during the lifespan. Seeing the dress as different colors is because the nervous system is changing activity in response to stimuli causing your brain to adapt and reorganize its structure. 


Picture retrieved from: https://abc7.com/the-dress-white-and-gold-black-blue-how-did-get-started/536801/

I listened to a podcast entitled "How Can Going Blind Give You Vision?". In the podcast, the Saved By the Bell star, Isaac Lidsky, talks about how going blind gave him more vision. Isaac argues that all of our reality is just an illusion. At the end of the podcast, Isaac says that going blind was a blessing because it gave him vision. Isaac did start his life being blind, his blindness grew overtime, so he knew what it felt like to see. It was around his mid-teens when he started having visual impairments and by 25 he was blind. Isaac says that sight is just one way we shape our realities. Just how we can shape our realities based off our fears. Isaac had to adapt to his blindness since he once knew what is was like to be able to see. Neuroplasticity is used in this scenario because Isaac had to adapt to being blind. His brain had to change in response to being blind in order for him to survive. 


Here's how The great 'the dress' debate of 2015 got started. ABC7 Los Angeles. (2015, February 27). Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://abc7.com/the-dress-white-and-gold-black-blue-how-did-get-started/536801/

Rogers, A. (2015, February 27). The science of why no one agrees on the color of this dress. Wired. Retrieved May 1, 2023, from https://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

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