Pareidolia can cause people to interpret random images, or patterns of light and shadow, as faces.

Pareidolia correlates with age but not autism traits. Pareidolia is frequent among patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. When Kahlbaum's paper was reviewed the following year (1867) in The Journal of Mental Science, Volume 13, Pareidolie was translated into English as 'pareidolia', and noted to be synonymous with the terms '.changing hallucination, partial hallucination, perception of secondary images.' Link to other conditions The German word Pareidolie was used in articles by Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum-for example in his 1866 paper ' Die Sinnesdelierien' ('On Delusion of the Senses'). The word derives from the Greek words pará ( παρά, 'beside, alongside, instead ') and the noun eídōlon ( εἴδωλον, 'image, form, shape'). Scientists have taught computers to use visual clues to 'see' faces and other images.

The concept of pareidolia may extend to include hidden messages in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music in random noise, such as that produced by air conditioners or fans. Pareidolia ( / ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/ also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none.Ĭommon examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, seeing faces in inanimate objects, or lunar pareidolia like the Man in the Moon or the Moon rabbit.

The Danish electrical outlet can be perceived as a happy face

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