“Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that the number of color-sensitive cones in the human retina differs dramatically among people—by up to 40 times—yet people appear to perceive colors the same way.” Additionally, the study finds evidence that subjective color perception is actually normalized between individuals by some internal mechanism.

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