Why the Brain Is Programmed to See Faces in Everyday Objects
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Face 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.
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Why the brain is programmed to see faces in everyday objects
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Paréidolie faciale : pourquoi il n'est pas si étrange de percevoir des visages dans des objets du quotidien - GuruMeditation
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Why We Are Programmed To Keep Seeing Faces In Inanimate Objects
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Why the brain is programmed to see faces in everyday objects
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Why We See 'Human Faces' in Objects Sometimes
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Our brains “read” expressions of illusory faces in things just like real faces
Why do we see faces in objects that are not actually faces? - Quora
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Why the brain can see faces in everyday objects
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Why the brain is programmed to see faces in everyday objects