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TL;DR: A 2026 Scientific Reports study found that natural images and white noise images produced similar amounts of pareidolia, but they shifted what people thought they saw. Key Findings Healthy adult sample: The study included 81 participants who viewed ambi…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in BMC Biology found that people judged female body size about as accurately from lower-body images as from whole-body images, but isolated thigh regions alone were not enough. Key Findings Two body-perception experiments: Researchers teste…
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TL;DR: A 2025 study in European Journal of Neuroscience found that slow breathing sharpened fearful-face perception during inhalation but weakened it during exhalation, with magnetoencephalography showing brain-timing changes before the face appeared. Key Find…
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Digital Faces Looked More Believable When Their Eyes Matched the Emotion TL;DR: A virtual smile or glare looked most believable with direct eye contact, while sadness became more believable when the digital face looked downward. Key Findings Direct gaze booste…
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