Wednesday, 3 February 2016

About face: Why we keep seeing faces in cars, electrical outlets and even cappuccinos

About face: Why we keep seeing faces in cars, electrical outlets and even cappuccinos

We see faces everywhere: a wise, weathered grin in a gnarled tree trunk, an angry grimace in cappuccino foam. They permeate our childhoods: the Man in the Moon, Herbie the Love Bug. Scientists call this phenomenon pareidolia, or false image, in which we perceive a familiar pattern where one does not actually exist, such as seeing animals in cloud formations.

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