Seeing Hands In the Soviet Union several cases have been reported recently of people who can read and detect colors with their fingers (46) . One case concerns an eleven-year-old school girl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid wails. (47) . One day she came into his office and happened to put heir hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, (48) . Vera’s curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she live and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child’s game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colors printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colors of a picture hidden under a carpet. (49) . During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers (50) .
A. and even described the way they were done up in bundles.
B. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity.
C. and even see through solid doors and walls.
D. Anther Russian girl, Rosa Kuleshova, could read blindfold.
E. this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.