Saturday, April 25, 2009

Pareidolia: a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant.
Apophenia: the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data.
intersting.
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2 comments:

  1. ThuberbaerApril 29, 2009 at 3:45 PM

    Wow. For the past two years, "apophenia" has been my favourite word. I think "pareidolia" might become my favourite for the next two.

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  2. Lizy BrautigamApril 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM

    i still don't remember them enough. it's not in the long-term memory system yet.

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