The Right Brain vs Left Brain 'test'

[Locutus]

Borrowed from another board.

While i seriously doubt gray matter hemisphere dominance can be tested this easily, since in this case much depends on what part of the pic you focus first and in what stage you take a look at it, i still found this gif animation quite cool. It's not a loop because everyone will have a different reaction to it.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22535838-5012895,00.html

If you can't get it to change for you, scroll down for a bit till you cant see the picture, then wait a few seconds, then scroll up again but only till see the shadow. Imagine the figure going counter-clockwise. Scroll up.

Weirdness. :smile:

 

[Hazmart]

That is really neat. She went counter clock wise for me at first but I got her to change direction and then change back!

 

[Sal]

Clockwise for me although it was easy to make her turn the other way. Also, if I looked slightly to the left I could make her waver back and forth.

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

 

[triedit]

Ditto the result that Sal had. She spent some time going clockwise, then back and forth pretty regularly.

 

[El Barto]

I must be brain dead

 

[El Barto]

the dancer has a short leg. Don't think she can turn in any direction

 

[Curiosity]

Clockwise ... I think I cheated - I locked onto her boob and watched its direction rather than the leg

Do we win a prize?

 

[El Barto]

Boob!?????? where?

 

[El Barto]

um she looks more like she laying on her back.

 

[Locutus]

Boob!?????? where?

Let your focus go deep through the dancer. She'll appear in 3D, riding a spaceboob. :lol:

 

[Curiosity]

ElBarto .... have you started wearing your winter touque??? Take it off or at least uncover your eyes.....hee I can't imagine you unable to spot a boob at any distance.

 

[Curiosity]

Let your focus go deep through the dancer. She'll appear in 3D, riding a spaceboob. :lol:

Shhhhhhhhh don't encourage him Loc....never know what will happen ....:lol:

 

[El Barto]

Curio hmmm sounds like you have chosen my colours for my portrait.
Am I really that bad?

 

[Curiosity]

ElBarto

Not at all at all - change nothing about you - you are adorable and fun and baaaaaaad in a nice way.

 

[El Barto]

awww ...so your not going to whip me into shape......no spanking?
Darn i feel let down

 

[Unforgiven]

I can see this thread going either way at the moment. snort ;-)

 

[flutterby]

i can only see her turning clockwise. no matter how i tried to look at it, i could never get her to turn the other way.

 

[Sal]

Ditto the result that Sal had. She spent some time going clockwise, then back and forth pretty regularly.

I think they forgot to mention that the ability to view all three happenings means a Mensa IQ

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

She changed directions on me frequently without me doing anything. Either the test is fixed or I am an extremely balanced individual. I'd bet on the former.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Very odd. According to everything I've read on the subject, I'm strongly left-brained--science and math and reason and logic and precision and details and yadda yadda...--and I'm also so strongly right-handed that my left hand isn't much better than a flipper for most purposes, except for playing a guitar, which is more evidence of left hemisphere dominance. I saw the dancer going only clockwise, despite heroic attempts to focus on other parts of the image and to find the 3D space boob. The site says that suggests right hemisphere dominance, which is contrary to everything I thought I knew about the subject.