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face pareidolia: a standalone construct

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Face and object perception

seeing faces in objects or random patterns, with behavioral and brain responses resembling those to real faces.

In face and object perception, face pareidolia refers to seeing faces in objects or random patterns, with behavioral and brain responses resembling those to real faces. This meaning comes from Liu (2014) in Cortex.[1]

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face3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs object4 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs perception3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Liu, J., Li, J., Feng, L., Li, L., Tian, J., & Lee, K. (2014). Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia. Cortex, 53, 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.013

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