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 ...

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 ...

A cheeky smile from a burnt piece of toast or a sullen stare from the "eyes" of a wall socket — when you start to see faces in inanimate objects, you may be experiencing "pareidolia," a phenomenon in ...

My mom never thought that sticking random inanimate objects into the microwave would ever be useful—in fact, she used to get pretty mad at me when I did it. But it turns out that she was wrong: Larry ...

For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different networks. A study shows that there is also another ...