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September 30, 2021 12:17 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2021/09/30/what-goes-on-in-the-brains-of-people-that-see-jesus-in-burnt-toast-a-scientific-study.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium
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
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