FeaturedNeuroscience·July 8, 2021·5 min readThere’s a ‘Man in the Moon’: Why Our Brains See Human Faces EverywhereFace pareidolia, a phenomenon where the brain is tricked into seeing human faces in inanimate objects, may occur as a result of the brain processing the perceived facial expression in the same sequential way it perceives a human face.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·August 14, 2020·6 min readWhy the Brain Is Programmed to See Faces in Everyday ObjectsFace pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing facelike structures in inanimate objects, is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when sensory input is processed by visual mechanisms that have evolved to extract social content from human faces.Read More
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