You may have a superpower that lets you see an invisible world. It’s more than just biology, scientists say.
You may have a superpower that lets you see an invisible world. It’s more than just biology, scientists say.
- December 18, 2025
- Kimberly Jameson, social sciences, Popular Mechanics, Dec. 18, 2025 (Subscription)
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According to Kimberly Jameson, Ph.D., a cognitive scientist at the University of California, Irvine, tetrachromacy might develop in individuals with the gene who find the color signal more relevant in their daily lives and have nurtured the extra sense. “Mozart was gifted in terms of his auditory system, but if he were raised in a family of goat herds, he may have never become a great composer,” she says.
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