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qu'est-ce qu'une paréidolie? what is a pareidolia?


Jean-michel N
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Une paréidolie (aussi écrit pareidolie, du grec ancien para-, « à côté de », et eidôlon, diminutif d’eidos, « apparence, forme ») est une sorte d'illusion d'optique qui consiste à associer un stimulus visuel informe et ambigu à un élément clair et identifiable, souvent une forme humaine ou animale. (information Wikipédia)

Pareidolia (/pærɨˈdoʊliə/ parr-i-DOH-lee-ə) is a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.
The word comes from the Greek words para (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead [of]") in this context meaning something faulty or wrong; and the noun eidōlon (εἴδωλον "image, form, shape"), the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data. (from Wikipédia)

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