A new study examined the mechanisms of the Flashed Face Distortion Effect, finding that the effect is greatly diminished when ...

When a 9-year-old boy contracted the flu and was getting tucked in at night, he told his mom she had looked as if she’d shrunk. He described this as happening out of nowhere, where the bedroom would ...

In our lifetimes, we encounter hundreds of thousands of faces. Each person's unique exposure to faces largely determines their "face space"—a model of how we encode, perceive, and remember the faces ...

It sounds like the stuff of horror films — but for people who are afflicted with a rare disorder, it’s a terrifying reality. A condition called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) causes facial features to ...

* Prosopometamorphopsia causes dramatic distortions in facial features due to disruptions in brain regions controlling visual processing * The condition is extremely rare and can result from //brain ...