The history of distortion truly begins in the ’50s when rock ‘n’ roll pioneers started deliberately applying distortion as an effect. By the late ’60s, distortion was established as part of the ...

The distortion effect is not limited to faces either. Researchers have found that when done on circles, they appear elongated. But scientists continue to search for a definitive answer on what ...

The L.A. distortion effect. One hallmark of our current moment is that when an event happens, there is little collective agreement on even basic facts.

This altered perception is a result of the “flash-faced distortion effect,” a “striking visual illusion in which faces presented sequentially in peripheral vision begin to look increasingly ...

The Mandela Effect occurs when a person believes that their distorted memories are, in fact, accurate recollections. They can clearly remember events that happened differently or events that never ...

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 ...

Neuroscience Why Faces Look Distorted in Our Periphery Peripheral blur and individual differences lead to face distortion effects. Posted March 26, 2023 | Reviewed by Vanessa Lancaster ...