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This bizarre visual illusion makes normal faces look like monsters

The flashed face distortion effect is a wild ride that your very own brain will take you on when viewing flashing images of faces side by side. If you focus your eyes on either set of photos on one ...
Science News

Here’s what distorted faces can look like to people with prosopometamorphopsia

Imagine a person’s face. Now imagine that whenever you looked at that face, there was a chance it would appear distorted. That’s what life is like for a person with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO. Now, ...
CNN

‘It’s like staring at demons’: Meet a man who lives with a disturbing condition

For 59-year-old Victor Sharrah, the terrifying symptoms began on a winter day in Nashville. “I just woke up and was sitting on the couch watching TV when my roommate came into the room, and (looking ...
Gizmodo

Haunting ‘Demon Faces’ Show What It’s Like to Have Rare Distorted Face Syndrome

A 58-year-old man with a rare medical condition sees faces normally on screens and paper, but in person, they take on a demonic quality. The patient has a unique case of prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), a ...
News Medical

Study suggests alcohol impairs face asymmetry detection, but perceptual distortion does not contribute to the ‘beer goggles'

In a recent study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, researchers examined the impact of real-world alcoholism on judgments of facial attractivity and symmetry across a single set of face ...