Media coverage
Animated short
06/13/2023 TED-Ed
Seeing things that aren’t there? It’s pareidolia
Animated video collaboration with TED-Ed
News coverage
03/29/2022 The New York TImes
How to see faces everywhere
Written by Malia Wollan [link to article] [link to paper 1] [link to paper 2]
03/25/2022 Scientific American
Does This Look Like a Face to You?
[60-Second Science podcast]
by Karen Hopkin [link to podcast] [link to paper]
02/19/2022 Forbes
Illusions Of Faces In Inanimate Objects Are Often Male
Written by Eva Amsen [link to article] [link to paper]
01/31/2022 The Times [UK]
Seeing Tricky Dicky in a pepper? It’s sex bias
Written by Tom Whipple [link to article] [link to paper]
01/29/2022 ABC [Australia]
Study of face pareidolia reveals gender bias in the way we see faces in everyday objects
Written by Cathy Extel and Simon Leo Brown [link to article] [link to paper]
01/27/2022 Science News
Americans tend to assume imaginary faces are male
Written by Maria Temming [link to article] [link to paper]
01/27/2022 Daily Mail [UK]
Why you see a MAN in the moon: Faces in inanimate objects are more likely to be perceived as young and male than old and female, study finds
Written by Jonathan Chadwick [link to article] [link to paper]
03/10/2021 The New York Times
Tasmanian Tigers Are Extinct. Why Do People Keep Seeing Them?
Written by Asher Elbein [link to article]
05/01/2018 Mental Floss
The Fascinating Science Behind Why We See ’Faces’ In Objects
Written by Susana Martinez-Conde [link to article] [link to paper]
08/28/2017 Atlas Obscura
Rhesus Monkeys See Faces in Objects, Just Like We Do
Written by Natasha Frost [link to article] [link to paper]
08/28/2017 Phys.org
Rhesus monkeys found to see faces in inanimate objects too
Written by Bob Yirka [link to article] [link to paper]
08/28/2017 Daily Mail
Rhesus monkeys see faces in inanimate objects just like humans
Written by Cecile Borkhataria [link to article] [link to paper]
08/25/2017 Discover Magazine
Even Monkeys See Faces in Things
Written by Elizabeth Preston [link to article] [link to paper]
08/24/2017 New Scientist
Monkeys can see faces in inanimate things, just like us
Written by Helen Thomson [link to article] [link to paper]
05/22/2015 BBC
The mountain illusion: What’s wrong with this picture?
Written by David Robson [link to article] [link to paper]