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[[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''' can be described as an increase in a person's ability to recognise patterns (usually faces) within vague stimuli. Psychedelics enhance the availability of information managed in the brain through inhibiting the lower brain structures' gating systems.<ref name="Vollenweider1998">Recent advances and concepts in the search for biological correlates of hallucinogen-induced altered states of consciousness. Heffter Rev. Psychedel. Res. 1, 21–32. https://heffter.org/docs/hrireview/01/chapter3.pdf</ref><ref>Vollenweider F. (2001). Brain mechanisms of hallucinogens and entactogens. Dialogues Clin. Neurosci. 3, 265–279. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181663/</ref> General effects of psychedelics involve the temporary disruption of the normal neural hierarchy, replacing the normally predominant top-down control of information transfer in the brain with an increasingly bottom-up dynamic characterized by an increased influence of posterior regions over frontal areas of the brain. This decoupling of the frontal areas with the medial lobes resulted in a disorganization of the high-level networks responsible for large-scale brain network integrity, resulting in increased flexibility of networks and a more open communication among them.<ref>Riba, J., Rodrıguez-Fornells, A., Strassman, R. J., & Barbanoj, M. J. (2001). Psychometric assessment of the hallucinogen rating scale. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 62(3), 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0376-8716(00)00175-7</ref><ref>Winkelman, M. J. (2017). The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences: Hypotheses from Evolutionary Psychology. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 539. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00539</ref>

'''Pattern recognition enhancement''' can be described as an increase in a person's ability to recognise patterns (usually faces) within vague stimuli.

This innate ability which human beings possess in everyday life is referred to by the scientific literature as pareidolia and is a well documented phenomenon.<ref>Liu, J., Li, J., Feng, L., Li, L., Tian, J., & Lee, K. (2014). Seeing Jesus in toast: neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia. Cortex, 53, 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.013</ref><ref>Kato, M., & Mugitani, R. (2015). Pareidolia in infants. PloS one, 10(2), e0118539. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118539</ref><ref>Coolidge, F. L., & Coolidge, M. L. (2016, August 09). Why People See Faces When There Are None: Pareidolia. Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-think-neandertal/201608/why-people-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia</ref> Common examples of this include spotting faces in everyday objects, such as the front of a car, or seeing different objects in clouds.<ref>Abraham, H. D. (1983). Visual phenomenology of the LSD flashback. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 40(8), 886-887. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/493119</ref>

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 [[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''' can be described as an increase in a person's ability to recognise patterns (usually faces) within vague stimuli. Psychedelics enhance the availability of information managed in the brain through inhibiting the lower brain structures' gating systems.<ref name="Vollenweider1998">Recent advances and concepts in the search for biological correlates of hallucinogen-induced altered states of consciousness. Heffter Rev. Psychedel. Res. 1, 21–32. https://heffter.org/docs/hrireview/01/chapter3.pdf</ref><ref>Vollenweider F. (2001). Brain mechanisms of hallucinogens and entactogens. Dialogues Clin. Neurosci. 3, 265–279. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181663/</ref> General effects of psychedelics involve the temporary disruption of the normal neural hierarchy, replacing the normally predominant top-down control of information transfer in the brain with an increasingly bottom-up dynamic characterized by an increased influence of posterior regions over frontal areas of the brain. This decoupling of the frontal areas with the medial lobes resulted in a disorganization of the high-level networks responsible for large-scale brain network integrity, resulting in increased flexibility of networks and a more open communication among them.<ref>Riba, J., Rodrıguez-Fornells, A., Strassman, R. J., & Barbanoj, M. J. (2001). Psychometric assessment of the hallucinogen rating scale. Drug & Alcohol Dependence, 62(3), 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0376-8716(00)00175-7</ref><ref>Winkelman, M. J. (2017). The Mechanisms of Psychedelic Visionary Experiences: Hypotheses from Evolutionary Psychology. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, 539. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00539</ref>
+'''Pattern recognition enhancement''' can be described as an increase in a person's ability to recognise patterns (usually faces) within vague stimuli.
 This innate ability which human beings possess in everyday life is referred to by the scientific literature as pareidolia and is a well documented phenomenon.<ref>Liu, J., Li, J., Feng, L., Li, L., Tian, J., & Lee, K. (2014). Seeing Jesus in toast: neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia. Cortex, 53, 60-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.01.013</ref><ref>Kato, M., & Mugitani, R. (2015). Pareidolia in infants. PloS one, 10(2), e0118539. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118539</ref><ref>Coolidge, F. L., & Coolidge, M. L. (2016, August 09). Why People See Faces When There Are None: Pareidolia. Retrieved February 21, 2018, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-think-neandertal/201608/why-people-see-faces-when-there-are-none-pareidolia</ref> Common examples of this include spotting faces in everyday objects, such as the front of a car, or seeing different objects in clouds.<ref>Abraham, H. D. (1983). Visual phenomenology of the LSD flashback. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 40(8), 886-887. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/493119</ref>