How on earth do we even see the colour yellow?

Question

You see colour using three different kinds of cones in our eyes, and these cones can be either red, blue, or green. So where does yellow come in? Green consists of yellow and blue – but how would you only see yellow and not the blue that would make it green?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The real question you should be asking is “how the hell do we see purple”, since there is no purple in the visible light specturm