Purple is not real ... the brain takes the linear visible spectrum and bends it into a circle—forming the color wheel—so that red and blue can connect, via Science News Explores.

A new study has upended our perception of the colour wheel, revealing that purple is not a "real" colour in the spectral ...

The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on the ... a combination of blue and red wavelengths, the brain bends the visual spectrum into a circle that joins blue and ...

Popular Mechanics reports that purple is a “pigment of your imagination”: The human eye doesn’t actually see purple. Rather, the actually-not-a-color is a combination of red and blue ...