Imagine waking up one morning and finding that every face you see is distorted into demonic proportions, with pointy ears, narrow eyes and a terrifying grin. That’s a reality for some patients with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just in time for Halloween, an extremely unsettling dysmorphic video has surfaced on r/blackmagicfuckery, a subreddit dedicated to the inexplicable. Stare at the video long enough, and the undoctored ...

Computer-generated images give an idea of what a person living with “demon face” syndrome might see when they look at someone. Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) is an extremely rare visual disorder that ...

A new paper from MIT neuroscientists Sharon Gilad-Gutnick and colleagues reveals that we are remarkably good at recognizing faces even if they are highly distorted. Not only is this scientifically ...