So far, only one child has trained on Let’s Face It, and that child showed increased amygdala activity in response to faces after training. Schultz said this signals that the child now understands ...

Ian Jacobs, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 Human brains are exquisitely attuned to perceiving faces—in fact, there's an entire region of the brain called the fusiform gyrus that is dedicated to it.

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To see if rhesus monkeys recognize faces in inanimate objects like human do, researchers at the US National Institute of Mental Health worked with five rhesus monkeys, showing them pairs of ...

Here’s a dopey animation from Sean Charmatz that imagines a world where every random object has a cute face. That means soup dumplings cling on to the paper when they get picked up, marshmallows ...

But researchers say this phenomenon known as pareidolia (pronounced para-dole-eia) is perfectly normal because we are primed to see faces in all sorts of everyday objects.This human tendency to ...

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There may be a reason we see a man, rather than a maiden, in the moon. When people spot facelike patterns in inanimate objects, those faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female ...

If you see faces in random objects, you might be kind of neurotic. That's what one new study suggests. As reported on Brain Decoder, a researcher at the NNT Communication Science Laboratory in ...