Why the Brain Is Programmed to See Faces in Everyday Objects - Neuroscience News

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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