A direct comparison of pareidolia vs. apophenia may be found in the following source under the heading of Priming, pareidolia & apophenia: <http://www.skepdic.com/news/newsletter96.html#2>http://www.skepdic.com/news/newsletter96.html#2
A subtle, but meaningful, comparison. Peter Kepros University of New Brunswick [email protected] At 05:50 PM 11/1/2009, you wrote: >On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:07:44 -0800, Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote: > >I see paraidolia (-: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia > >Actually, apophenia might be the more appropriate term, see: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia > >I believe this is the basis for "data mining". ;-) > >-Mike Palij >New York University >[email protected] > >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Smith [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:04 AM >To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >Subject: Re: [tips] Ghost in the brain > >As this forms a makeshift projective test, your responses indicate >that you are all deeply disturbed. >lol > >--Mike > >On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > OMG I'm so glad someone else saw something else. I thought it was me. I > > looked at that and said to myself, "Self, I don't see ghost there > at all." In > > fact, I'm with Michael! I also *immediately* thought, "Mary Poppins!" And > > then I thought, Oh No! What does this say about me, if I see Mary Poppins > > instead of ghost. > > > > Whew. I am so relieved today. > > > > Annette > > > > ---- Original message ---- > >>Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:53:24 -0500 > >>From: "Britt, Michael" <[email protected]> > >>Subject: Re: [tips] Ghost in the brain > >>To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > [email protected]> > >> > >>Allan, > >> > >>I'm afraid you're way off there. That's not an arrow sticking out of > >>the back of the image. It is obviously an umbrella and this is > >>clearly not a ghost but rather it is Mary Poppins. Really! I don't > >>see how anyone can see anything different! ;) > >> > >On Nov 1, 2009, at 3:15 AM, Allen Esterson wrote: > >> > >>> Neurologist Joshua Klein: > >>>> To me it looked like a ghost. That's exactly what I thought it > >>>> was. At first I was thinking, "Is this the angel of death?" > >>>> http://tinyurl.com/yjcoxmm > >>> > >>> I can discern a shadow image of a crouching dog to the left of the > >>> ghost. There is an arrow apparently sticking out of the middle of its > >>> back, but no doubt that's an accidental artefact of the imaging > >>> process. > >>> > >>> Allen E. > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------- > >>> From: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Ghost in the brain > >>> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:43:28 -0400 > >>> Another illustration of our infinite capacity to find order in > >>> disorder: > >>> > >>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/10/ghost_in_the_brain_an > >>> _appariti.html > >>> or > >>> http://tinyurl.com/yjcoxmm > >>> > >>> (about that "for you alone". The (thwarted) intent was to not > >>> clutter up the list, so of course that's what I did. Fortunately, > >>> there was nothing juicy there, and I resolved not to send yet > >>> another e-mail explaining it, but it can piggy-back here. Reminds > >>> me to be more careful). > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
