pareidolia - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 14 Oct 2015 21:02:44 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg pareidolia - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Jesus brain scan a 'miracle' https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/10/20/jesus-brain-scan-a-miracle/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:20:01 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=77828 A former Blenheim man says there are signs of divine intervention in a scan of his wife's brain after she had emergency surgery following a stroke. When Tamaha MacDonald and his wife Jennifer Lougee Mingramm returned home from the hospital after Lougee Mingramm suffered a stroke, they started looking through a pile of X-rays taken Read more

Jesus brain scan a ‘miracle'... Read more]]> A former Blenheim man says there are signs of divine intervention in a scan of his wife's brain after she had emergency surgery following a stroke.

When Tamaha MacDonald and his wife Jennifer Lougee Mingramm returned home from the hospital after Lougee Mingramm suffered a stroke, they started looking through a pile of X-rays taken during her treatment.

The pair, who live in Mexico City, spotted an unusual image in an X-ray of Lougee Mingramm's brain.

Although their doctor did not spot the resemblance, MacDonald, Lougee Mingramm and her family were convinced that an image at the centre of the scan depicted Jesus Christ. Continue reading

Jesus brain scan a ‘miracle']]> 77828 Seeing Jesus on a slice of toast is normal https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/05/13/seeing-jesus-slice-toast-normal/ Mon, 12 May 2014 19:20:59 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=57616 Seeing Jesus on a slice of toast? It's common for people to see non-existent features because human brains are uniquely wired to recognise faces, scientists say. Whether glimpsing the blessed Mary in a grilled cheese or eyeing up Nebuchadnezzar in a freshly crisped bagel, we all know that Americans are constantly beset by visions of Read more

Seeing Jesus on a slice of toast is normal... Read more]]> Seeing Jesus on a slice of toast? It's common for people to see non-existent features because human brains are uniquely wired to recognise faces, scientists say.

Whether glimpsing the blessed Mary in a grilled cheese or eyeing up Nebuchadnezzar in a freshly crisped bagel, we all know that Americans are constantly beset by visions of biblical figures in toasted food products.

Now scientists say they've shed more light on how this happens in the first place.

The phenomenon is known as facial pareidolia (pronounced pari-DOH-lee-a) and is a subset as apophenia - a general term that describes our tendency to see patterns in even random data. Continue Reading

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