Face perception
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Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face. Here, perception implies the presence of consciousness and hence excludes automated facial recognition systems. Altho
A computer-enhanced fMRI scan of a person who has been asked to look at faces
Three-layer model of self-cognition developed by Motoaki Sugiura
A human male and female
Sample of real and edited white and Asian faces used in study of the cross-race effect
Pareidolia
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Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidol
Face perception
…Nonverbal learning disorder Pareidolia Prosopagnosia…
An example of pareidolia in the Rocks of Dwejra at Gozo, Malta, which looks like a face.
A pyroxene crystal in a piece of basalt that resembles a human face, facing to the left
The Jurist by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1566. What appears to be his face is a collection of fish and poultry, while his body is a collection of books dressed in a coat.
Salem by Sydney Curnow Vosper (1908), a painting notorious for the belief that the face of the devil was hidden in the main character's shawl