Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces

S Sharma, K Vinken, AV Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Humans perceive illusory faces in everyday objects with a face-like configuration, an illusion
known as face pareidolia. Face-selective regions in humans and monkeys, believed to …

The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain

J Taubert, SG Wardle, CT Tardiff… - Social Cognitive and …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
Face detection is a foundational social skill for primates. This vital function is thought to be
supported by specialized neural mechanisms; however, although several face-selective …

[HTML][HTML] The face pareidolia illusion drives a happy face advantage that is dependent on perceived gender.

OV Lipp, J Taubert - Emotion, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The happy face advantage, the faster recognition of happy than of negative, angry or fearful,
emotional expressions, has been reliably found and is modulated by social category cues …

Dynamic brain communication underwriting face pareidolia

V Romagnano, J Kubon, AN Sokolov… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - pnas.org
Face pareidolia is a tendency to seeing faces in nonface images that reflects high tuning to a
face scheme. Yet, studies of the brain networks underwriting face pareidolia are scarce …

A behavioral advantage for the face pareidolia illusion in peripheral vision

BW Saurels, N Peluso, J Taubert - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Investigation of visual illusions helps us understand how we process visual information. For
example, face pareidolia, the misperception of illusory faces in objects, could be used to …

When anthropomorphized brands push their gender boundaries

LW Yang, P Aggarwal - Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
When anthropomorphized, brands are often imbued with gender. Consequently, when
brands seen as female or male adopt marketplace behaviors that are incongruent with their …

A database of heterogeneous faces for studying naturalistic expressions

H Long, N Peluso, CI Baker, S Japee, J Taubert - Scientific Reports, 2023‏ - nature.com
Facial expressions are thought to be complex visual signals, critical for communication
between social agents. Most prior work aimed at understanding how facial expressions are …

Race and the mental representation of individuals diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder: Implications for diagnosis

SJ Stroessner, NP Alt, I Ghisolfi… - Journal of Social and …, 2023‏ - Guilford Press
Introduction: This research investigates the possible role of racial and gender stereotypes in
diagnosing children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD). ODD is diagnosed more …

Assessing the perception of face pareidolia in children (Homo sapiens), rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella).

M Flessert, J Taubert, MJ Beran - Journal of Comparative …, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Face pareidolia is the misperception of a face in an inanimate object and is a common
feature of the face detection system in humans. Whereas there are many similarities in how …

Preliminary evidence of an increased susceptibility to face pareidolia in postpartum women

J Taubert, S Wally, BJ Dixson - Biology Letters, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
As primates, we are hypersensitive to faces and face-like patterns in the visual environment,
hence we often perceive illusory faces in otherwise inanimate objects, such as burnt pieces …