Can you do this?

Gord.T

Gord.T

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Sit in a chair, stick out your right leg and rotate your foot/ankle/leg in a clockwise rotation.
While doing that, with your right hand, write the imaginary number six in the air in front of you.
Or if your left handed, use your left hand and left leg.

I'm reserving my opinions and observations for later.
 
just humorous to think that in order to render a verdict, you had to have sat there and tried it.

lying down now. so, without even trying it i can already tell you that i cannot. i am no multitasker. You're talking about a guy who absolutely cannot be on a cell phone in a supermarket and fill up his cart at the same time. i just wander around aimlessly from aisle to aisle until i can get off the phone.
 
Can anyone tell me why you can't?

Can anyone provide a brief cell phone capture showing the 'can do' or something?
Because it's easy if the instructions are misinterpreted. Pretty hard otherwise so hats off if you could the first time.
(And you don't have to be sitting in a chair. I just thought that might be more comfortable.:))

I've already done my research and yes I can do it as described although not at first. It's not a trick type of thing.
Later on that.
 
I start with my foot, then my finger. Did it the first time :) clockwise twist of the foot and writing a 6 in the air with my right hand.
 
Brandon Rice said:
I start with my foot, then my finger. Did it the first time :) clockwise twist of the foot and writing a 6 in the air with my right hand.
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Your right foot, right? I don't mean to be a pest. It's a specific test.

I can draw 6's all day with my right hand while rotating my left foot either CW or CCW with no effort because those parts of the bodies are on different hemispheres of the brain.
Otherwise I have to 'train' my brain like in this case.

Just curious then, at about how many rotations per second were you rotating your foot?
I defaulted at about 2 rotations per second. Point is, at about 1 rotation per second, the brain can more time to swap back and forth and it get much easier. At that point, with conditioning, one could perform the task that would would otherwise be considered undoable (is that a real word?). That's my thinking anyways.

I used to play complicated piano parts by treating them as a single part rather than 2 seperate parts. People often said something like "I don't know how you can have your hands playing 2 different things at once like that." And I'd say "I don't. I'm just playing one part." Which gets into phrasing and a longer discussion I suppose, haha.

I'd better go then. Been up for 40+ hr's lol.
Have a good night. See ya tomorrow.
:)
 
Huh. That's pretty amazing.

I just tried it again and can do it sloppily at about 1 rotation per second. I think with some practice I could get it up there. It takes a lot of concentration though and I still screw it up about 40% of the time.

Weird though. Congrats.
 
I can do both without difficulty. I don't know what that proves, except that I'm willing to look silly at work.
 
I wonder if musically inclined people are more likely to accomplish this. When I was playing drums on Rockband or Guitar Hero (don't judge me), I couldn't get my foot to tap on offbeats when my hands were playing on the "on" beat (I'm sure there's a musical term for that). I can't get my body to work independently like that. Or, for the FCP users, I can't "apple L" my actions.
 
It's easy enough for me, but I am in the visual rather than musical end of things. Maybe people who spend a lot of time working their visual cortex together with their hands might have an advantage...?
 
co-ordination puzzle

While sitting down (or standing if you have good balance), lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles with it. At the same time, repeatedly draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and without an awful lot of practice, there's nothing you can do to prevent it.

This effect seems to be because drawing the number 6 is effectively a counter-clockwise movement which the brain can't reconcile easily with a clockwise one (a bit like patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time). If you draw the six from the middle and end with the up-stroke instead, it doesn't conflict with the clockwise foot motion, because the 6 is now a clockwise motion too. What's strange is how we've evolved to enable same direction movements with different limbs, and to resist opposite ones - There doesn't seem to be a survival benefit from this, unless it's a bi-product of an overall more co-ordinated (and therefore more efficient, quicker, athletic) movement capability, which would of course have been a survival aid.

http://www.businessballs.com/games.htm
About half way down the page.
 
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