[bestouff]

Also this depends on the color calibration of your computer and monitor chain, so merging adjacent colors would effectively be a good idea.

[radlad]

I think there is probably a bias (to your brain) based on the last two colors shown as well.

Similar to those "these boxes/squares are the same color" illusions.

[bhouston]

I believe that illusion is based on our visual processor's reliance on local contrast in order to adjust the perceived true color to the inferred lighting conditions. So local adjacency information here is what is being used, rather than just temporal recently.