I mean it is an itneresting exercise on visual recognization, the visual priamry systems and their consequent projections..a dn of course about the projection of otehr areas of the cortex on the visual primary cortex....
But left brain vs right brain???? are they kidding or somethin?
I promise this comemnt has nothing to do with the fact that I do not see itmoving at all... nro clockwise nor anticlockwise...
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
Yup, kc, I think you're "right" again, je je je!
Interesting how people so love these tests they don't question the science behind them (or the journalistic transmission of the science).
Oh dear, now I'm being left-brained...
Didn't we just the other day have some article about how people find claims about brains more believable if the are accompanied by a colored picture of a brain? There we also have the associated annoying tendency of 'proving' already known things with an MRI picture. You know, the stupid articles of the kind: "People have long said that having their nose hairs pulled out with tweezers makes them angry and annoyed. Now scientists have proved this with MRI imaging! People really are getting angry, not just imagining it!" As if there was some kind of objective neurological activity that is 'anger', or some other emotional whatever, and if the MRI doesn't confirm, then you are not really angry, but just imagining it.
Still, spinning brain images are fun things!
I don't know what science is behind the dancer, either. I tend to think it's in the optical illusion category, though, rather than the left/right brain dichotomy. But what I tend to think is Not Science™.
I do find it fascinating how easily people accept a veneer of brain science (cf the accompanying picture example) and are ready to start categorising themselves and others on a very slim basis.
People like to be able to explain why some things are as they are. Why not use flimsy brain science to attribute traits? Skin colour seems to be an acceptable enough way of categorising for many people. Ad astra per aspera
Same class of 'science'
That's not something I dare to say round here... ;)
I wouldn't compare this to categorisation on the basis of colour, race, gender, etc, though -- which are social hierarchy sub-categories. These tests with their veneer of brain science seem to appeal to the highly educated and concern personal, possibly innate, dispositions. Yes, maybe a question of reassuring oneself, like an IQ test.
I'm in trouble, because the dancer says I'm right-brained and the coffee beans say I'm left-brained. D'oh, the headache!
