Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Colors are not fixed features of objects, but subjective experiences shaped by the brain Some humans have a gene that codes for an extra ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A 2014 BBC feature followed art teacher Concetta Antico leading her pupils to the park. She talked about the manifold colors flashing before her eyes, from the streaks of red off a sparkling leaf to ...

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 ...