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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victor Sharrah had always been a social person, but for the past three years, he's found himself more withdrawn.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 ...

Emoji lovers, buckle up, the Unicode Consortium has just dropped a brand-new batch of emojis under Unicode 17.0, and Apple fans are in for a ride. The upcoming iOS 26 update is expected to include 8 ...

His distorted face has been inescapable on social media — blown up and tinted like a blueberry, smooth and textureless, edited as a Minion and Furby. What began as “an easy own” has spiraled into a ...