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    Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing faces in inanimate objects due to previous learning. When presented with illusory face stimuli that have components similar to real faces, humans engage in top-down processing that associates the stimuli with real faces, resulting in perceiving an illusory face as real. A study used fMRI to show that both real faces and pareidolia faces activated the fusiform face area and medial frontal region of the brain, though pareidolia faces showed smaller activation. Future studies could help understand visual hallucinations by examining brain activation patterns in clinical groups experiencing hallucinations during pareidolia tasks.

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    Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing faces in inanimate objects due to previous learning. When presented with illusory face stimuli that have components similar to real faces, humans engage in top-down processing that associates the stimuli with real faces, resulting in perceiving an illusory face as real. A study used fMRI to show that both real faces and pareidolia faces activated the fusiform face area and medial frontal region of the brain, though pareidolia faces showed smaller activation. Future studies could help understand visual hallucinations by examining brain activation patterns in clinical groups experiencing hallucinations during pareidolia tasks.

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    Pareidolia is the phenomenon of seeing faces in inanimate objects due to previous learning. When presented with illusory face stimuli that have components similar to real faces, humans engage in top-down processing that associates the stimuli with real faces, resulting in perceiving an illusory face as real. A study used fMRI to show that both real faces and pareidolia faces activated the fusiform face area and medial frontal region of the brain, though pareidolia faces showed smaller activation. Future studies could help understand visual hallucinations by examining brain activation patterns in clinical groups experiencing hallucinations during pareidolia tasks.

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    Pareidolia

    Introduction

    Of the visual stimuli that have a survival value, faces


    are among the most important because humans are
    familiar with perceiving them. Kanwisher found that
    Pareidolia is the interpretation of face stimuli evoked activation on the lateral side of
    the brain, and a Functional Magnetic Resonance
    previously unseen and unrelated objects Imaging study by Kanwisher and Yovel showed that
    as familiar due to previous learning. This the fusiform regions exhibited greater activation to
    faces than to letter strings or textures. Recent studies
    phenomenon typically occurs when non- have shown that this region exhibits significant
    face stimuli erroneously activate a activation for real faces as well as during face
    pareidolia.
    connection between visual input areas and

    internal representations. When presented with illusory face stimuli that have
    components similar to normal faces, such as eyes
    and mouths, humans engage in top-down processing
    that creates associations with previous knowledge
    about real faces, which results in interpreting an
    illusory face as a real face.

    And when a house was perceived as a face, the


    Fusiform Face Area exhibited greater activation and
    that the medial frontal region, which is responsible for
    decision makin also showed a high level of activation.
    These findings indicate that interactions between
    bottom-up and top-down modulations play an
    important role in face pareidolia.

    Pareidolia faces
    Experiments
    The scientists did a test with a group of people, placing images of real
    faces and images of pareidolia faces, the results are these. As you can
    see, the areas affected by the real face and the pareidolia face are the
    same but on the pareidolia faces in a smaller amount of activation

    However, the brain regions that exhibit activation during these


    processes have yet to be fully determined. The present study found that
    certain brain regions are involved in processing real-face and face-
    pareidolia stimuli.

    Results
    Future plans

    Findings of the present study might be extended by collecting


    clinical data. For example, it would be possible to apply the same
    procedure to clinical patients with bipolar disorder or
    schizophrenia because these groups tend to experience
    hallucinations. Uchiyama found that visual pareidolia may be
    related to visual illusions, and research on pareidolia might inform
    they understanding of visual hallucinations.

    The site where I read my research information:

    Neural mechanisms underlying visual pareidolia


    processing: An fMRI study

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