Do you see the “face”? Individual differences in face pareidolia

• Published in: Journal of Pacific Rim psychology Vol. 14
• Main Authors: Zhou, Liu-Fang, Meng, Ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Brain; Cognition & reasoning; Females; Gender differences; Males; Mouth; individual difference; signal detection theory; face pareidolia

People tend to see faces from non-face objects or meaningless patterns. Such illusory face perception is called face pareidolia. Previous studies have revealed an interesting fact that there are huge individual differences in face pareidolia experience among the population. Here, we review previous...