Pattern recognition enhancement: Difference between revisions

[[File:Faceincloud.jpg|thumbnail|300px|'''Face in a cloud''' by '''[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/14/pareidolic-robot Neil Usher]''' - This image serves as an example of [[pattern recognition enhancement]].]]

'''Pattern recognition enhancement''' is defined as an increase in a person's ability and tendency to recognize patterns within vague stimuli.  

Seeing patterns resemble human faces is an innate ability which humans possess in everyday life and is well documented in scientific literature under the term ''pareidolia''.<ref name="LiuLi2014">{{cite journal|last1=Liu|first1=Jiangang|last2=Li|first2=Jun|last3=Feng|first3=Lu|last4=Li|first4=Ling|last5=Tian|first5=Jie|last6=Lee|first6=Kang|title=Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia|journal=Cortex|volume=53|year=2014|pages=60–77|issn=00109452|doi=10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.013}}</ref><ref name="HadjikhaniKato2015">{{cite journal|last1=Hadjikhani|first1=Nouchine|last2=Kato|first2=Masaharu|last3=Mugitani|first3=Ryoko|title=Pareidolia in Infants|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=10|issue=2|year=2015|pages=e0118539|issn=1932-6203|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0118539}}</ref> Common examples of this include spotting faces in the front of a car, or seeing different objects in clouds.<ref name="Abraham1983">{{cite journal|last1=Abraham|first1=Henry David|title=Visual Phenomenology of the LSD Flashback|journal=Archives of General Psychiatry|volume=40|issue=8|year=1983|pages=884|issn=0003-990X|doi=10.1001/archpsyc.1983.01790070074009}}</ref>

During this effect, patterns can be significantly more pronounced than it would usually be during a sober state.<ref name="BelserAgin-Liebes2017">{{cite journal|last1=Belser|first1=Alexander B.|last2=Agin-Liebes|first2=Gabrielle|last3=Swift|first3=T. Cody|last4=Terrana|first4=Sara|last5=Devenot|first5=Neşe|last6=Friedman|first6=Harris L.|last7=Guss|first7=Jeffrey|last8=Bossis|first8=Anthony|last9=Ross|first9=Stephen|title=Patient Experiences of Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis|journal=Journal of Humanistic Psychology|volume=57|issue=4|year=2017|pages=354–388|issn=0022-1678|doi=10.1177/0022167817706884}}</ref><ref name="Halberstadt2015">{{cite journal|last1=Halberstadt|first1=Adam L.|title=Recent advances in the neuropsychopharmacology of serotonergic hallucinogens|journal=Behavioural Brain Research|volume=277|year=2015|pages=99–120|issn=01664328|doi=10.1016/j.bbr.2014.07.016}}</ref> For example, remarkably detailed images may appear embedded in scenery, everyday objects may look like faces, and clouds may appear as fantastical objects all without any visual alterations taking place. Once an image has been perceived within an object or landscape, the mind may further exaggerate this recognition through the [[hallucinatory states|hallucinatory effect]] known as [[transformations]], which goes beyond pareidolia and becomes a standard visual hallucination.  

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