Sentences with word «tetrachromat»

It's possible these so - called tetrachromats see a hundred million colors, with each familiar hue fracturing into a hundred more subtle shades for which there are no names, no paint swatches.
Jay Neitz, a vision researcher at the University of Washington, thinks that potential tetrachromats may need practice to awaken their abilities.
To find if tetrachromats were hidden in this group, the researchers sought out the mothers of color - blind sons and had them take matching tests similar to the one used by De Vries, but with a twist.
A doctor living in northern England, referred to only as cDa29 in the literature, is the first tetrachromat known to science.
If they were true tetrachromats, they would never be able to make a satisfactory match, because they would be able to sense color gradations beyond those available on the test.
The brand teamed up with tetrachromat Maureen Seaberg, who can see over 100 million more hues than the average naked eye, to create highly pigmented shades like this vibrant berry that's unlike any other lippie in its shade family.
One of the exercises, referred to as a «tetrachromat survey,» allows guests to test how well they perceive shades of color and discover if they are one of the rarepeople with four color receptors (versus the norm of three), allowing them to see millions more hues than the average person.
Theoretically, these so - called tetrachromats can identify subtleties of shading that are indistinguishable to the rest of us; however, this phenomenon has been hard to confirm experimentally.
The first hint that tetrachromats might exist came in a 1948 paper on color blindness.
To a tetrachromat, though, one would stand out.
She had finally found her tetrachromat.
Only a tetrachromat would be able to perceive the difference, thanks to the extra shades made visible by her fourth cone.
Tetrachromats might never need to draw on their full capacity.
A tetrachromat is someone who can see more shades than the average person.
Unless you're a tetrachromat, prepare yourself for an edible game of Russian Roulette.
The tetrachromat, supposedly equipped with an extra variable that modulates every one of these colors, would therefore see distinctions between colours that are invisible to the trichromat.
Most birds are tetrachromats, they see colors in four channels instead of the three channels humans see; this super-color vision is believed to assist them in food gathering and mate selection.
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