Understanding how the human brain recognizes faces is a primary scientific goal in
cognitive neuroscience. Given the limitations of the monkey model of human face …

Following traumatic brain injury in adulthood, Pierrette Sapey (PS) became suddenly unable
to recognize the identity of people from their faces. Thanks to her remarkable recovery of …

The authors are both self-described congenital aphantasics, who feel they have never been
able to have volitional imagined visual experiences during their waking lives. In addition …

Pareidolia refers to the perception of ambiguous sensory patterns as carrying a specific
meaning. In its most common form, pareidolia involves human-like facial features, where …

Visual categorization is the brain ability to rapidly and automatically respond to a certain
category of inputs. Whether category-selective neural responses are purely visual or can be …

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 …

Face pareidolia occurs when random or ambiguous inanimate objects are perceived as
faces. While real faces automatically receive prioritized attention compared with nonface …

Various objects and artifacts incorporate representations of faces, encompassing artworks
like portraits, as well as ethnographic or industrial artifacts such as masks or humanoid …

Neuromorphic visual systems based on optoelectronic synaptic devices have been recently
studied to simulate the retina and visual cortex of a human being. Now it is shown that an …

Face tuning to non-face images such as shadows or grilled toasts is termed face pareidolia.
Face-pareidolia images represent a valuable tool for investigation of social cognition in …