Some colour blind people only have two kinds of cone cell in their eye. Others have three kinds, but the cones do not pick up the same light waves as the cone cells in most people’s eyes do.
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Disease and disorders can affect how we see. Can the images in painted artworks tell us something about the state of an artist’s vision?
There must be some evolutionary force acting to maintain this visual ‘defect’.
The pink ball introduced to this year’s day night cricket test can be difficult to see for some players, especially if they are colour blind. There is a better choice of colour.
The recent shark attack was enough to convince Australian surfer Mick Fanning that the colour of his surfboard may have been a factor. But what do sharks actually see in the water?
A possible link between colour vision and the development of myopia (near-sightedness) has been found by an international…
We’ve known since early last year that sharks are most likely colour-blind. But today, in a paper published in Biology Letters by our team at UWA, we explain why this is the case. It’s a finding we believe…
Here are six test tubes filled with coloured dyes. How many different colours do you see? Most people say six, but some people would say only two or three. There are even some (very rare) people who see…
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Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology & Eye Health, Central Clinical School, Save Sight Institute, University of Sydney
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Professor of Comparative Neurophysiology, Macquarie University
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Postdoctoral associate, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
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Associate Professor, Department of Optometry & Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland