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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]].]] | [[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 an increase in a person's ability and tendency to | '''Pattern recognition enhancement''' is defined as an increase in a person's ability and tendency to recognize 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 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><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 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> | 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 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><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 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> | ||
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Pareidolia (Wikipedia)] | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia Pareidolia (Wikipedia)] | ||
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