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 ...

A stranger’s face flickers past you on a crowded street, and something in you clicks. Years later, you could still pick that same face out of a grainy photo. For a small group of people known as super ...

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 ...

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.

(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. But this process of seeing a face and recognizing it isn't ...

Sadie Dingfelder fell in love at a used-car lot. “We have so much in common,” she recalls thinking. “She’s roughly my age, she’s caked in dirt, and her cab is tiny compared to her big bouncy butt—I ...

For 59-year-old Victor Sharrah, the terrifying symptoms began on a winter day in Nashville. “I just woke up and was sitting on the couch watching TV when my roommate came into the room, and (looking ...

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 ...