On 28 February 2015, an online test for tetrachromacy (a rare condition of a person's having four cone cells in the eye) went viral after being shared on the LinkedIn social media site. The test, ...
After decades of exhaustive study, scientists have concluded that human tetrachromacy is real. Some people have a truly superhuman range of color vision. In fact, there are two distinct types of ...
Artist Concetta Antico sees orange, yellow, green and pink all jumping out at her - where we'd see a monotone grey stone FOR years, scientists have studied colours – and whether or not people see them ...
A tiny group of people can see ‘invisible’ colours that no-one else can perceive, discovers David Robson. How do they do it? As Concetta Antico took her pupils to the park for an art lesson, she would ...
"It was a Rosetta Stone moment; I felt like we had broken the code." The recent correspondence from Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D., an affable and brilliant scientist studying the senses at Arizona ...
When most of us look a buttercup, we simply see yellow. But one artist sees a whole host of extra colours around the flower's edge, because she is a tetrachromat and can see 100 times more hues than ...
A unique genetic mutation and a well-wired brain mean that Concetta Antico is like no other artist on Earth. By Alexandra Ossola Published Oct 13, 2014 9:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...
Tetrachromacy is a condition which allows people to see colours invisible to most of us. Almost everyone has three types of cone cells in their retina – which all respond, albeit slightly differently, ...
"It was a Rosetta Stone moment; I felt like we had broken the code." The recent correspondence from Kristopher Jake Patten, Ph.D., an affable and brilliant scientist studying the senses at Arizona ...
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