It's the phenomenon where the brain sees or hears something of significance in a random picture or pattern. A common example ...

A face-shaped pebble marked with a red dot that was discovered in a Spanish cave may be proof that Neanderthals engaged in ...

Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. People often report seeing human faces or forms in inanimate objects. For instance ...

It is a visual illusion, often of a face, that arises from ambiguous forms such as rocks on a mountainside (Kurumada et al 2021). Essentially, human features appear within inanimate objects ...

The phenomenon, called face pareidolia, is when people identify recognisable images in random objects or patterns of light. Now, research suggests women who have just given birth are the most ...

"We found postpartum women rated objects with illusory faces as more 'face-like' than ... The women in the new study were shown 320 images in a random order and asked to rank them on an 11-point ...

A total of 320 images were shown in a random order and took just over ... a bonfire and a big-chinned grey cliff face. The inanimate object with the easiest-to-see humanoid face was a lumpy ...