The woman with rainbow vision: Artist sees 100 times more colours than the average person because of genetic condition
The woman with rainbow vision: Artist sees 100 times more colours than the average person because of genetic condition
- October 17, 2014
- Research by Kimberly Jameson, IMBS researcher, is featured by Mail Online Oct. 17, 2014
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From Mail Online:
It was only in 2012 that she was found to possess the genotype for tetrachromacy and
she has been studied by the University of California, Irvine. Experts said that differences
in color perception are hard to detect because they are small and tests are not designed
for more than three pigments – blue, red and green.
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