Thursday, 6 August 2015

Science Explains Why People See Faces Where There Are None

image credit: Dave Pearson

You know the story - someone sees the image of Jesus burned into a piece of toast, the story makes the local news, and it goes viral. Pareidolia, the process by which the mind perceives a familiar pattern where there is none, results from our search for meaning in random information.

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