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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Concetta Antico got her first set of oil paints at the age of 7. Art has been in her life ever since. "I painted album covers, in my teens, on the walls of my room," she said. "I was immersed in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...