Whenever we look at something unfamiliar for the first time, it's only human nature that we look for the familiar in it. Even given the huge variety of what turns up in the animal kingdom, it's only ...

Facial recognition is just one way that people differentiate one person from another, but it's not unique to humans; non-human primates innately exhibit this ability too. Recognizing facial features ...

Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects into ...

Seeing faces in common objects is not unusual. You might have seen the “man in the moon”, or seen faces in electrical outlets or sliced bell peppers. A new study from the National Institute of Mental ...

A team of researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has found that rhesus monkeys, like humans, recognize face-like traits in inanimate objects. In their study published in the ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

As the brain attempts to organize the visual world, it hones in on familiar patterns — like the shape of a human face — and sometimes, it even concocts these patterns out of random noise. We spot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you say "sorry" to random objects, you're probably a very conscientious person. We've all done it, but some of us do it more ...