Vanessa Van Edwards explains pareidolia, the tendency to see faces in food and objects. A brain region behind your right ear constantly scans for facial expressions, an evolutionary adaptation to extract social information. This hypervigilance makes your brain find face-like patterns everywhere.
Have you ever noticed that you see faces in food sometimes? Our brain is actually adapted to read facial expressions, and there's a specific part of our brain that we use to read facial expressions. It's actually right behind the right ear. It's a part of our brain that has specifically developed to read facial expressions. The funny thing about this is that part of our brain is hyper-aware. We know inherently that reading faces gives us extra social information, and so we are always on the lookout to read people's facial expressions, whether we're in a crowded room or we're on a video call. This is why As humans, we tend to see faces everywhere, in mountains, in rocks, and that is that part of our brain that's looking for faces everywhere. We know that spotting facial expressions holds so much information.
