Pareidolia is our tendency to perceive familiar patterns or objects in stimuli where none exist. As social animals, we are especially attuned to faces and emotions. This phenomenon implies that: O we...

Extracted text: Pareidolia is our tendency to perceive familiar patterns or objects in stimuli where none exist. As social animals, we are especially attuned to faces and emotions. This phenomenon implies that: O we perceive objects as unchanging even as illumination and retinal images change we compute color of an object relative to its context so the perceived color changes perceptual adaptation occurs when a stimulus remains constant over time and eventually seems to disappear O our experiences and expectation can also guide our perception