{"id":3018,"date":"2014-09-19T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:24:38","slug":"canadian-researcher-wins-ig-nobel-prize-for-explaining-jesus-toast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/canadian-researcher-wins-ig-nobel-prize-for-explaining-jesus-toast\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian researcher wins Ig Nobel prize for explaining \u201cJesus toast\u201d<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kang Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto\u2019s Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, has won an Ig Nobel prize for explaining why people have a tendency to see faces in ordinary objects, such as the face of Jesus in toast.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0010945214000288\">published earlier this year<\/a><\/span>, Lee\u2019s team showed that the phenomenon &#8211; known as face pareidolia &#8211; is linked with certain hard-wired circuits in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The Ig Nobel prizes have been handed out annually since 1996 by the science humor magazine <i>Annals of Improbable Research<\/i> for projects that \u201cfirst make people LAUGH, and then make them THINK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on 2014 Ig Nobel prize winners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kang Lee, a professor at the University of Toronto\u2019s Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, has won an Ig Nobel prize for explaining why people have a tendency to see faces in ordinary objects, such as the face of Jesus in toast. In a paper published earlier this year, Lee\u2019s team showed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[869,1647],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-canada-en","tag-human-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-MG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}