Researchers Won An Award For Figuring Out What Happens In The Brains Of People Seeing Jesus In Toast

It's not just the religious who claim to see faces in inert objects. From shadowy likenesses of Jesus and the Virgin Mary in potato chips and tree stumps to the Man in the Moon, people have been spotting human portraits in faceless objects for hundreds of years. Our reactions are perfectly normal, according to recent research from Chinese and Canadian scientists, published earlier this year in the journal Cortex. On September 18, these researchers won the Ig Nobel prize in neuroscience for their...