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Remember the infamous dress that sparked an unforgiving hullabaloo on the internet? Is that white and gold or blue and black? While there was no shortage of pseudo-scientific comments on the issue, now legit researchers have actually published a study in a bid to resolve the crisis. The findings were published in the journal  Current Biology  which suggested the perceived difference in the color was directly related to how our brains perceive colors in daylight. This difference of color perception has been well-documented before, but “the dreaded dress” is certainly one of the most dramatic examples of the phenomenon, the researchers said. “By studying the pair of colors in ‘The Dress,’ we can answer the age-old question: Do you see colors the way that I see them? And the answer is sometimes ‘No,'” Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who teaches at Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  said in a statement . The study asked 1,401 ...