{"id":27032,"date":"2021-05-22T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27032"},"modified":"2021-05-22T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T12:14:43","slug":"word-of-the-day-pareidolia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27032","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: pareidolia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Pareidolia<\/strong>\u00a0is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous visual stimulus (so that one sees an object, pattern or meaning where in fact there is none).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_pareidolia\">lunar pareidolia<\/a>\u00a0like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man_in_the_Moon\">Man in the Moon<\/a>\u00a0or the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moon_Rabbit\">Moon Rabbit<\/a>. The concept of pareidolia may extend to include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hidden_message\">hidden messages<\/a>\u00a0in recorded music played in reverse or at higher- or lower-than-normal speeds, and hearing voices (mainly indistinct) or music, in random noise such as that produced by air conditioners or fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pareidolia was at one time considered a symptom of psychosis, but it is now seen as a normal human tendency.\u00a0Scientists have taught computers to use visual clues to &#8220;see&#8221; faces and other images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pareidolia\u00a0is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous visual stimulus (so that one sees an object, pattern or meaning where in fact there is none).\u00a0 Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, or\u00a0lunar pareidolia\u00a0like the\u00a0Man in the Moon\u00a0or the\u00a0Moon Rabbit. The concept of pareidolia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27033,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27032\/revisions\/27033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}