Thursday 30 September 2021

What goes on in the brains of people that see Jesus in burnt toast: a scientific study

Seeing faces in inanimate objects isn't anything new, and the word pareidolia has been in use since the 1860s. An Instagram account called @things.faces documents some of the best. Our brains are highly tuned to see faces, and in 2014, a team of researchers from Canada and China dug into the neural mechanisms behind the phenomenon. — Read the rest