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  • Brunner said. pareidolia: Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.

    Victoria Advocate stories: News 2009

  • Brunner said. pareidolia: Pareidolia is a type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.

    Victoria Advocate stories: News 2009

  • (Not insignificantly, Milo's band is called Pareidolia, after the human compulsion to see, for instance, the Virgin Mary on a piece of toast.)

    Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

  • By real I mean not imagined problems or ones that have been there for a very long time but the user is just now noticing it and artificially connecting the cause to the recent update (it's called Pareidolia).

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2009

  • Pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon whereby random images are perceived as being something more significant.

    MTV Serves Up Fresh Ident Package, Taylor Swift Scrambled « Art & Business of Motion 2009

  • Pareidolia means the perception of vague and random stimuli as significant.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • Pareidolia means the perception of vague and random stimuli as significant.

    The Shapes of Things We See Heather McDougal 2008

  • I really wish that more people would become familiar with the concept of Pareidolia.

    Looks Just Like Him To Me Bill Crider 2009

  • Pareidolia is a specific kind of apophenia where faces or other patterns emerge from random shapes.

    Archive 2008-06-01 James Gurney 2008

  • Pareidolia is a specific kind of apophenia where faces or other patterns emerge from random shapes.

    Pareidolia and Apophenia James Gurney 2008

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