Actually, I think, in this particular case, pareidoliac apophenia is most appropriate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia).
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected] ________________________________________ From: Mike Palij [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2009 3:50 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: RE: [tips] Ghost in the brain 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])
