A study of colour perception shows that, when assigning colour to objects, the seeing brain takes into account subtle reflections of light between the surfaces in a scene.
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Gegenfurtner, K. Reflections on colour constancy. Nature 402, 855–856 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/47194
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