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Pareidolia
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Perception of meaningful patterns or images in random or vague stimuli
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Pareidolia (; also US: ) is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Pareidolia is a specific but common type of apophenia (the tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things or ideas).

Instance of
Optical illusion
Cognitive bias
Subclass of
Optical illusion
Part of
psychology terminology
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