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 ...

Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, for those who have a very rare condition known as prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), which causes facial features to appear distorted, that ...

What Is Demon Face Syndrome? Demon face syndrome, or prosopometamorphopsia, is a rare brain disorder that affects how a person sees faces. If you have this condition, other people’s features might ...

Victor Sharrah had always been a social person, but for the past three years, he's found himself more withdrawn. That's because ever since he woke up one day in November 2020, Sharrah, 59, has been ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day on July 17, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that will be coming with Unicode 17.0. Notably, Distorted Face is a popular emoji in Discord ...

Computer-generated images of the distortions of a male face (top) and female face (bottom), as perceived by the patient in the study. Imagine if every time you saw a face, it appeared distorted. Well, ...