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提分练三十五　UNIT 9(A组) 阅读理解 A　(2023·高三学业质量评价T8联考)　体裁:说明文　主题语境:科学研究　难度:★★★☆☆ You’ve stopped at a café on your way to work, and next thing you know, your latte foam is staring at you. You’ve had the same furniture for years, but today your cupboard looks sad. You’re lying in the park with your friends, and now Jesus is floating by in the clouds—are they seeing him too?! Why do we see human faces everywhere? Until now, it has been unclear as to why the brain processes visual signals and represents them in our mind as human faces. However, researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Sydney have tried evaluating this phenomenon. The facial recognition response happens fast, only taking a few hundred milliseconds. From an evolutionary perspective, the researchers suggest that the benefit of “never missing a face” outweighs (超过) the error where lifeless objects are seen as faces. Despite knowing that the object you are seeing is not a human face, the perception (知觉) of a face stays. This is known as “face pareidolia”. Pareidolia refers to the tendency to impose a meaningful interpretation on an unclear stimulus (刺激物), making one see an object, pattern or meaning when there is none. Pareidolia was originally considered a symptom of mental disorder, but it is now viewed as a normal human tendency. Pareidolia has been investigated by scientists and has been present in art and literature for a long period of time. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet demonstrates his supposed madness in his exchange with Polonius by telling him that he can see a camel in the sky. The researchers set out to investigate whether a detected pareidolia face would be cast off as a false detection or be analysed for a facial expression. The study participants were presented series of faces and asked to rate each face expression on a scale from angry to happy. The series involved a mix of both real and pareidolia faces. The researchers have found that pareidolia faces are not cast off as fa