Humans as pattern detecting organisms
Pareidolia: (n) The erroneous or fanciful perception
of a pattern or meaning in something that is actually ambiguous or random.
Visual forms
in random visual patterns
Research on messages in songs played
backwards
Can we consciously reverse speech?
Do we unconsciously perceive reversed speech and obey the message?
When do we perceive meaning in reversed speech: Expectations & chance
correspondance
Conceptualizations of randomness
Underestimation of the clumpiness
of random patterns
The myth of the hot hand
Clusters of disease cases: The Texas sharpshooter
fallacy