Right Brain vs Left Brain - an interesting test
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JoeFowler
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There's a flash, a quick jump, or skip in the animation, and it changes direction. I thought I figured out how to make it go back and forth, but then it didn't work, and then it switched! It's a trick, it changes direction, not your brain.
What needs to happen is multiple people need to look at it at the same time, and call out when it switches, that way you'd know it wasn't just you...
I'll see if I can do the test...
What needs to happen is multiple people need to look at it at the same time, and call out when it switches, that way you'd know it wasn't just you...
I'll see if I can do the test...
Luis Caffesse
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I'm not sure that's the case - I stared at that thing for minutes on end and it ONLY went clockwise for me. Once I was able to see it going to counterclockwise I was then able to make it 'switch' every few seconds... it's possible that there is a jump in the animation - but I don't think the animation is changing at all.
JoeFowler
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Ok, brought some others in from the office, and it is definitely not a trick, it's (as they say) all in your head!
I also saved the gif, and opened it in quicktime, moved it frame by frame, and saw that it just loops the same 10 frames or so over and over.
I'm a nerd.
I also saved the gif, and opened it in quicktime, moved it frame by frame, and saw that it just loops the same 10 frames or so over and over.
I'm a nerd.
karapetkov
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When you look at the text, brain switches to speech-logic-left regime, when you focus on the image itself, it "turns" clockwise.
This is simple cognitive mechanics:
Written\spoken language -> Logic -> Left hemisphere.
Imagery -> Right hemisphere.
There's nothing spooky about it and no tricks. This is just how the brain works.
People who see it switch simply don't pay full attention to the image :laugh:. Remember what your first reaction was and you'll find what kind of a regime is default for you, or, in other words - are you a communist or a nazi
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I'm definitely a "nazi", because it was clockwise all the way with me, it switched when I focused full time on reading the text again.
Ok, the last one was nonsense.
P.S. Nice body.
This is simple cognitive mechanics:
Written\spoken language -> Logic -> Left hemisphere.
Imagery -> Right hemisphere.
There's nothing spooky about it and no tricks. This is just how the brain works.
People who see it switch simply don't pay full attention to the image :laugh:. Remember what your first reaction was and you'll find what kind of a regime is default for you, or, in other words - are you a communist or a nazi
.I'm definitely a "nazi", because it was clockwise all the way with me, it switched when I focused full time on reading the text again.
Ok, the last one was nonsense.
P.S. Nice body
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Jon Starr
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It's simple.
Some people are saying that when clockwise, she looks closer to the screen, and when backwards, she's furthur away. And therefore she cannot be moving any other direction.
Not true. When I switch it to counter-clockwise you begin to notice that she's actually at an angle, so that her foot, when clockwise, is furthur down than when she's turned away, giving the impression she's leaned towards you.
When it's counter, it's just vise versa. She's leaned away from you, so the foot is furthur down when she's away from you, than when she's close to you.
It's not a trick in the animation. She is technically neither going clockwise or counter clockwise, but rather flipping back and forth as a sillouette.
It took me a while to get her to switch and was convinced it couldn't be anything other than clockwise, but once I switched it, the easier it becomes.
Stop being skeptical guys, just concentrate on the feet, squint your eyes or turn away, and imagine that when the foot moves in front, it's behind, or vise versa, and you'll eventually change it at will and it'll become easier with time.
Some people are saying that when clockwise, she looks closer to the screen, and when backwards, she's furthur away. And therefore she cannot be moving any other direction.
Not true. When I switch it to counter-clockwise you begin to notice that she's actually at an angle, so that her foot, when clockwise, is furthur down than when she's turned away, giving the impression she's leaned towards you.
When it's counter, it's just vise versa. She's leaned away from you, so the foot is furthur down when she's away from you, than when she's close to you.
It's not a trick in the animation. She is technically neither going clockwise or counter clockwise, but rather flipping back and forth as a sillouette.
It took me a while to get her to switch and was convinced it couldn't be anything other than clockwise, but once I switched it, the easier it becomes.
Stop being skeptical guys, just concentrate on the feet, squint your eyes or turn away, and imagine that when the foot moves in front, it's behind, or vise versa, and you'll eventually change it at will and it'll become easier with time.
jpbankesmercer
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Directors - Clockwise
Producers - Anti Clockwise
Producers - Anti Clockwise
Anhar_Miah
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Both,
No its not the animation,
to force a switch, either scroll down to block the animation or close your eyes,
Start to imagine the direction First, then when you scroll up or open your eyes, it does work (not every time, but most times), I think that the images are unidirectional, the cross over occurs when the legs block each other, its this point that can actually be in either direction.
No its not the animation,
to force a switch, either scroll down to block the animation or close your eyes,
Start to imagine the direction First, then when you scroll up or open your eyes, it does work (not every time, but most times), I think that the images are unidirectional, the cross over occurs when the legs block each other, its this point that can actually be in either direction.
JasonFox
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Matthew R. Rodwell
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I see her switch back and forth every half turn, only see her move 180 degrees then change directions...maybe I have a tumor
morten
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this is a true test of brain dominance. If you remember Top Gun when someone tapes this ridiculous rig on Tom Cruise's head so that he can only see out of one eye it's the same thing.
brain dominance is closely linked to how we perceive the world, solve problems, communicate and what kind of creative juices are flowing through our minds. the dumbed-down explanation of this is that a right-hemisphere dominated person is more "creative" while a left-hemisphere dominated person is more practical. think artist for right and mathmatician for left.
you'll also find that most right-handed people are left dominated while most left handed people are right dominated (because the left hemisphere controls the right hand and vice versa).
The interesting part for me is that as an ambidextous person I don't really have a dominant hemisphere. this causes a lot of weird stuff but most importantly it makes me insanely indecisive because the two halves of my brain are constantly arguing over what should be done or how to solve a problem (does that make me sound like a schitzo or what!)
there are tons of tests on the web that tell you hemispheric dominance but this one is the easiest one I've seen so far. and you can't "trick" this one as you can with the question-based tests.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/hemispheric_dominance.html
http://www.google.ca/search?q=brain+hemisphere+dominance+test&hl=en&start=10&sa=N
There are also tests for front-back dominance which are even more interesting.
and of course there are huge 500 question and practical tests that make this even more interesting.
The REALLY crazy **** comes up when you meet people who have had their brains split in half. This is a procedure done in some cases with severe epilepsy patients and was done in the past to try to "fix" people with mental problems. When the two halves don't have a physical connection they start acting independently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
mor10
brain dominance is closely linked to how we perceive the world, solve problems, communicate and what kind of creative juices are flowing through our minds. the dumbed-down explanation of this is that a right-hemisphere dominated person is more "creative" while a left-hemisphere dominated person is more practical. think artist for right and mathmatician for left.
you'll also find that most right-handed people are left dominated while most left handed people are right dominated (because the left hemisphere controls the right hand and vice versa).
The interesting part for me is that as an ambidextous person I don't really have a dominant hemisphere. this causes a lot of weird stuff but most importantly it makes me insanely indecisive because the two halves of my brain are constantly arguing over what should be done or how to solve a problem (does that make me sound like a schitzo or what!)
there are tons of tests on the web that tell you hemispheric dominance but this one is the easiest one I've seen so far. and you can't "trick" this one as you can with the question-based tests.
http://www.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/hemispheric_dominance.html
http://www.google.ca/search?q=brain+hemisphere+dominance+test&hl=en&start=10&sa=N
There are also tests for front-back dominance which are even more interesting.
and of course there are huge 500 question and practical tests that make this even more interesting.
The REALLY crazy **** comes up when you meet people who have had their brains split in half. This is a procedure done in some cases with severe epilepsy patients and was done in the past to try to "fix" people with mental problems. When the two halves don't have a physical connection they start acting independently:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
mor10
Terry_Lasater
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For some reason the thing that bothered me most about this test is the use of the word anti-clockwise... isn't the word counter-clockwise more appropriate?
whatever...
whatever...
OK, I've seen "Top Gun" approximately 343 million times, but I don't remember anything like that.
Drew Ott
Wish I were banned.
Bothered me too.
I can get it to switch but it takes a whole lot of concentration.
Rick Meyer
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Smokin' bod though.
Any one else with me on this?
Any one else with me on this?
Jon Starr
Veteran
So then most film makers, artists, etc... are left handed?
I'm left handed, but I doubt most people on these boards are left handed, yet they all seem to be right brained.
I remember learning in intro to psych that the theory of left is right brain and right is left brain is no longer thought to be true, but rather it has to do with which hand you chose to write with at a young age, and you stick with it. This is why people are ambidextrous, why some kick better with the right leg, or with the left leg, wy they do things better with one hand for one task, while better with the other hand at another task.
However to challenge this theory you can say, if this is the case, then why are only 1/8 of the population left handed, shouldn't it be half half?
I still don't believe the left brain right hand, right brain left hand to be true. Are we really all left handed on these boards?
morten
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really? Hmmmm. maybe it wasn't Top Gun then. some flying movie. where a guy had left eye dominance but needed right eye dominance to be able to read the HUD in a plane or helicopter.