Christ on a Cracker! Why We See Faces in Everything

Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

The experience of finding patterns, especially faces, in data is a phenomenon known as pareidolia. Humans are particularly prone to these types of misidentifications, possibly because they may have provided evolutionary advantages.

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