Pareidolia in fractal patterns

Participants identified as many recognisable forms as they could in cloud-like fractal images. Pareidolic perceptions arose more often and more rapidly in highly creative individuals, and across a broader range of image contrasts and fractal dimensions.

Published in iScience in 2022. Presented from 2018 onward at CogSci, the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, Acfas, the Canadian Consciousness Research Symposium, and the Human Brain Project.