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Started a project in 2003 to develop a sensor that transposed color frequencies into sound frequencies. [25] Cal Henderson: b. 1981 United Kingdom: Programmer: Worked on applications to make the Internet more accessible to colorblind people. [26] Matt Holland: red–green b. 1974 England Ireland: Association football player [27] Richard Hughes ...
Robin Millar – Record producer, Businessman and philanthropist. Tsutomu Aragaki – Japanese tenor, blind from just after birth. [ 20] Garret Barry – an Irish uilleann piper, among the most famous players of the 19th century. [ 21] Delta Blind Billy – an American Delta blues artist and outlaw.
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her ...
Following that, there is a list of people who are often wrongly believed to have had synesthesia because they used it as a device in their art, poetry or music (referred to as pseudo-synesthetes). Estimates of prevalence of synesthesia have ranged widely, from 1 in 4 to 1 in 25,000 – 100,000. However, most studies have relied on synesthetes ...
People with RM have a reduced visual acuity, (usually about 0.1 or 20/200), have total color blindness, photo-aversion and nystagmus. The nystagmus and photo-aversion usually are present during the first months of life, and the prevalence of the disease is estimated to be 1 in 30,000 worldwide. [3]
Color blindness or color vision deficiency ( CVD) is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color. [ 2] The severity of color blindness ranges from mostly unnoticeable to full absence of color perception. Color blindness is usually an inherited problem or variation in the functionality of one or more of the three classes of cone ...
Chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia is a type of synesthesia in which sound involuntarily evokes an experience of color, shape, and movement. [ 1][ 2] Individuals with sound-color synesthesia are consciously aware of their synesthetic color associations/ perceptions in daily life. [ 3] Synesthetes that perceive color while listening to ...
Davis Phinney started a foundation to inspire and inform people with Parkinson's. Alan Alda (born 1936), American actor. [ 1] Steve Alten (born 1959), American author. [ 2][ 3] Alex Band (born 1981), American singer ( The Calling ). [ 4][better source needed] Andy Barrie (born 1945), Canadian radio personality. [ 5]