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Engineering Pareidolia: Mental Imagery and Visual Creativity

2026-02-12

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Pareidolia is usually framed as a viewer-side illusion, a tendency to perceive meaningful forms, especially faces, in ambiguous inputs. This Concept Paper argues that pareidolia can also be deliberately engineered and therefore provides a tractable entry point into the neurophysiology of visual creativity. We propose a unifying construct in which pareidolia functions as externally scaffolded mental imagery. Minima...

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33b52c1a-56d1-5b2d-b374-adb87c627d6d
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10.20944/preprints202602.1006.v1
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