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  2. Pareidolia - Wikipedia

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    Satellite photograph of a mesa in the Cydonia region of Mars, often called the "Face on Mars" and cited as evidence of extraterrestrial habitation. Pareidolia (/ ˌ p ær ɪ ˈ d oʊ l i ə, ˌ p ɛər-/; [1] also US: / ˌ p ɛər aɪ-/) [2] is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one detects an object, pattern, or ...

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An unusual unit of measurement is a ... units devised to compare a measurement to common and familiar objects. ... Mils and strecks are small units of angle used by ...

  4. Recognition-by-components theory - Wikipedia

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    Breakdown of objects into geons. The recognition-by-components theory, or RBC theory, [1] is a process proposed by Irving Biederman in 1987 to explain object recognition. According to RBC theory, we are able to recognize objects by separating them into geons (the object's main component parts). Biederman suggested that geons are based on basic ...

  5. Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange ...

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    They highlight ASKAP J1839−0756 (AJ0) as the slowest one ever observed, rotating just once every 6.45 hours, and explain that scientists have not felt sure of the origins of these strange ...

  6. Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Some objects, such as IC 167, [6] are simply ordinary spiral galaxies viewed from an unusual angle. Other objects, such as UGC 10770 , are interacting pairs of galaxies with tidal tails that look similar to spiral arms.

  7. 50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google ... - AOL

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    According to the team that administrates the group and moderates the content, the community is a place for “anyone who loves” looking at things on Google Earth and has found “strange ...

  8. The Unusual Object in Ina Garten’s Kitchen That Caught My Eye

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  9. Object recognition (cognitive science) - Wikipedia

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    Object orientation agnosia is the inability to extract the orientation of an object despite adequate object recognition. [34] With this type of agnosia there is damage to the dorsal (where) stream of the visual processing pathway. This can affect object recognition in terms of familiarity and even more so in unfamiliar objects and viewpoints.