Whenever we look at something unfamiliar for the first time, it's only human nature that we look for the familiar in it. Even given the huge variety of what turns up in the animal kingdom, it's only ...

As the brain attempts to organize the visual world, it hones in on familiar patterns -- like the shape of a human face -- and sometimes, it even concocts these patterns out of random noise. We spot ...

The mind is great at spotting potential friends, even when they’re inanimate. Feel emotional after spotting what looks like a face in your breakfast cereal, or perhaps what kind of looks like Virgin ...

Facial recognition is just one way that people differentiate one person from another, but it's not unique to humans; non-human primates innately exhibit this ability too. Recognizing facial features ...