People see faces everywhere thanks to a quirk of the brain called visual pareidolia. Have you ever looked at a cloud and seen a face? Or the front of a car and seen a face? Or an electrical outlet and ...

We got to the face area, where we expected the face area to be, and we could hear the electrical activity. We showed pictures of faces and other objects, and the cell would just go off to the faces.

When you look at clouds, tree bark, or the front of a car, do you sometimes see a face staring back at you? That's "face pareidolia" and it is a perfectly normal illusion where our brains spot faces ...

(via Be Smart) Have you ever looked at the front of a car and seen a face? Or an electrical outlet and seen a face? You definitely have. We all see faces everywhere we look thanks to a fun quirk of ...

Every Easter morning, Donna Lee makes pierogis. The Polish pastry, made from frying a special dough, has become a beloved part of the family tradition. But Easter 2005 brought something very ...

Humans are hardwired to see faces — even in inanimate objects. We have a lima bean-shaped part of our brains dedicated to facial recognition.... The human brain is hardwired to recognize faces. But ...

The ability to recognize faces is deeply ingrained in humans – as well as some of our distant, socially oriented primate cousins. Indeed, there appear to be regions in the brain – notably, a spot at ...

People with macular degeneration and other forms of central vision loss can see details like text and faces with this device.

Humans are hardwired to see faces, even in inanimate objects. We have a lima bean-shaped part of our brains dedicated to facial recognition. But this process of seeing a face and recognizing it isn't ...