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THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
I'm left-brained, acc'd to this. But I can easily see it move in either direction. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Wee bit black and white methinks. keep to the Fen Causeway
Funnily, when I clicked on it to save it, it changed direction. I suppose focusing on a logical/technical task made my left brain kick in.. "Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
what i find most interesting was to try and witness the change-over sensation in my brain, but it seems totally friction-free.
there seems to be a 60/40% preponderance to clockwise.
fascinating... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
"If you watch the dancer's bouncing foot you'll see (I think) that the image slowly changes and then reverses direction."
But I watched and...no change. Then I looked away and back: she's dancing the other way!
Then, if I looked at the text on the left and not the picture I could catch the shifts--and then I pondered how it worked, watched the text and kept the image on the periphery of my vision--the image seemed to be skating along, wobbling the way those speed skaters do.
And then, I could even get the image--for a moment or two--to turn one way and then the other. Very clever! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Which led me to believe that it's a trick -- maybe the image changes? It doesn't make sense otherwise.
I looked at it for while longer, looked away a few times, watched her switch directions a few more times, and this time paid attention to whether she was standing on her left leg or her right. And that changes too, so I still thought the image itself must change.
But now I've stared at it a good long time, and I've been able to actually focus enough to see her switch directions a lot more often, almost but not entirely whenever I want to.
I am still not convinced that the image doesn't change at some point, though, because I can't see both images at the same time, and usually with these perception-switching tricks I can.
I also tried it on an assortment of willing victims, who all saw something different. At the same time.
Clockwise for me, by default, but I can make her switch by looking at her lower foot.
Trying to make her switch by looking at her arms made me feel ill.
(Although for sitemeter purposes, some possibly might wish that they were....)
I think the count is one anti-clockwise and everyone else clockwise, so far.
(I just checked: she was going counter clockwise in your honour.) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
you are the media you consume.
So...
Er...
Don't forget to report back!
(And anyone with links to those who designed this--mucho appreciatum!) Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Now I want to know who designed the image and how they explain the mechanism.
I think it is to do with assuming direction to a black shape--the shape is two D but we assume solidity, so one half of the brain assumes a certain spin....
...uh oh...I just thought of quantum mechanics and that means I'll be leapt upon by left-brain types. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
I've just decided I'm ambicerebral. If that's a word... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Until I concentrated only on the foot she pivots on, and there was a shift and she was going anti-clockwise. It soon went back to clockwise though.
<cough> Does this really prove anything?
Ach, now I can't.
I have to look away from the image, though, to make it change--or else (and so it's a brain thing) if I lose concentration she reverts...
....I can see her foot going around as I type...it's going anti-clockwise...and I can make it flip!
one thing happens and then the other: somehow the brain is choosing to see A before B; with the flip it sees B before A and the direction changes. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
"Yep, definitely counter clockwise for me."
and there's a lone voice saying,
"Well I see it going clockwise." Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
I think that means you are so far to the left you're to the right, or you're so far to the right you're to the left, or, um, you grew up with clocks that ran backwards? Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
The only thing I really failed at in school was learning to tell time. (I grew up with digital clocks.) I stayed after school and cried in the 3rd grade because I just couldn't understand how to tell time. I failed a test. I had intensive all night study sessions with my father. Eventually I figured it out, but for a while everyone was freaking out because I was in all these gifted kids classes but couldn't tell time. It was my dirty little secret.
No clue if there is connection there.
I think my head might just be on wrong. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I saw an earlier comment about 3D pics. You can train your brain to see these things faster. If you give me a 3D pic I am able to see what it is in less than five seconds. I just simply go cross-eyed and stare through the picture, and let the rest assemble itself. I love them. I can do a similar thing with different patterns, like upholstery on an airplane seat (yep, I can make it 3D!!!) I used the same principle while looking at this spinning woman... and it works! She started switching, like a pendulum. Slaloming, really. Try it! "If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
Yes, I can do those 3D pictures easily too (once I figured them out), and I do the same with patterns!! Curtains, shadows, graphic patterns have provided hours of dissociative pastime for me. It's almost like pulling focus on a camera, really.
Yay. I'm not insane.
So, perhaps it has more to do with the ability to shift perspective (literally and figuratively) easily than with being "right" or "left" brained? Interestingly, I would associate that skill with the "creative" mind and not the "logical" one. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Easily shifting focus is probably well said. I think it might be caused by easier communication between left and right brain that women have (the corpus callosum works better for us, apparently. Migeru reminded me of my psychology classes ;), credit to him.)
So maybe this little experiment shows that we are actually using both sides of the brain fairly well??? :) (Nothing wrong with a bit of ego-boosting on this apparently very right-brained blog... LOL) "If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it." Lord Brabazon
Scientific proof that this site has a male bias? lol.
So maybe this little experiment shows that we are actually using both sides of the brain fairly well???
Like I said, I'm going with "ambi-cerebral." (I thought I'd just made up this term, but some googling -yes, I can google, Mig- reveals its previous, though I suspect illegitimate, existence.) "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
The fact that Chris noticed--after having no doubt read and commented on economic this and financial that--explains his reaction to the image.
The fact that those who have looked have tried to see it spinning the other way shows we are eager to learn.
The fact that more than one of us suspected that the image had been manipulated in some way shows that some of us have a latent susception to conspiracy theories.
Which we will try and debunk, of course. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
i see it both ways. depending ont hem oment ... it is very nice..
but again is about the primary visual cortex... and noone is so stupid to claim that it has to do with something about the right or left brain...
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
Here's another optical illusion.
And here's one that is definitely (they say) "right brain/left brain".
Hidden Face Illusion - Optical Illusion
Can you find the human face which is hidden in these coffee beans? Doctors have concluded that if you can find the face in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the face between 3 seconds and 1 minute, your right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the face between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the face after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!
Can you find the human face which is hidden in these coffee beans?
Doctors have concluded that if you can find the face in the coffee beans in 3 seconds, the right half of your brain is better developed than most people. If you find the face between 3 seconds and 1 minute, your right half of the brain is developed normally. If you find the face between 1 minute and 3 minutes, then the right half of your brain is functioning slowly and you need to eat more protein. If you have not found the face after 3 minutes, the advice is to look for more of this type of exercise to make that part of the brain stronger!
I'd say it took me about a minute and yes: there really is a face in amongst those beans! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
it is really amazing research...
I got oa two hour fullt reatment about brain implication of this kind of visual perceptions..a dn the reaction times to them...
And I have also read simialr things ina ntrhopology about presenting the same kind of visual percetpion to different cultures with other learnt parametres of perception...
really amazing
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
And your diary about magic, of course. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
this is a good way to start..a s good as any other
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain/images/ImageGallery.html
or..
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:yAGF13wXIA4J:www.dandavidprize.org/pr/2004_EnglishGrinvald0404. doc+weizmann+institute+brain+research+amiram&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=opera
A pleasrue 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
We are told there's a face hidden, so we find it?
Is everyone seeing the same face?
Seeing the damn thing also rather depends on the state of your eyesight and the quality of your screen... Mine are dimmer than they used to be... ;)
Only in the comment thread does the poster claim "Doctors have concluded etc...", and gives no source or reference to back the claim.
gee.. I should shut up sometimes :)
There was a Clash single, Tommy Gun...
Maybe I've got the wrong single, but there was one--I'm sure it was by the Clash--and when you shook the cover the words smeared off the page!
How does it work?
hint: the brain hates ambiguity
I must have a strange mind. :) 'It depends on which research report you read,'says Hattie, 'and sorry about this, but I do tend to believe the ones that suit me.'
Never continues in either direction for long.
In fact, I find it difficult to believe it doesn't have random switching built in....
But it's really interesting comparing ET'ers comments - - and the left brain/right brain stuff on the site - to their personae as it comes across in my accumulated experience of Diaries and comments...
Which is probably exactly what we are all thinking in relation to everyone else.
"Uh huh, that figures...". "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
Yeah, the similarities between you, LEP and I were always striking...
;) "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
what does that tell you? Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
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...
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!
