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Really cool picture either way. Are there more of the same?
Left or Right Brained? Check this image. - Page 18
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Sweden2756 Posts
Really cool picture either way. Are there more of the same? | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14910 Posts
and I've tried on 3-4 different occasions | ||
Mynock
4492 Posts
On October 14 2007 23:55 alias wrote: hehe... if this isn't a trick, it's kinda fun. I concentrate on my right side of the brain, and it turns clockwise, then i switch to left side mode and it turns anticlockwise. fun! but takes a while though, so not sure if it's real. Some people never cease to amaze me. The original has already been linked, and in it, it states cearly this is merely an optical illusion like so many others, it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with what part of your brain you use more. Especially that they have cut the original image where the shadow clearly helps in switching directions. But the "logical" "explanations" some people seem to find are absolutely spectacular. Here's an other one for you: Original (the colours in the places A and B are of exactly the same shade of gray): ![[image loading]](http://users.bigpond.net.au/dropbear/illusion.jpg) Solution: + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/shades%20illusion2.jpg) | ||
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a-game
Canada5118 Posts
On October 15 2007 05:54 Mynock wrote: The original has already been linked, and in it, it states cearly this is merely an optical illusion like so many others, it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with what part of your brain you use more. ] i don't think the article has ever tried to pretend it's anything but an optical illusion. people are still going to see either a clockwise or counter clockwise spin relative to whether they're left or right-brain oriented. it's how we interpret the optical illusion that becomes the test. | ||
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Last.Midnight
Australia906 Posts
On October 14 2007 23:59 Element)LoGiC wrote: The gif is rigged. If you think otherwise, it doesn't matter which way you see her turning, as both sides of your brain are devoid of activity. Haha, how ironic. | ||
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potchip
Australia260 Posts
On October 14 2007 20:19 Meta wrote: i think this thread contains far more evidence pertaining to the fact that it's a trick of how the mind percieves rotating objects than to "the gif is rigged gg" Years ago I read somewhere that the brain interprets and predicts motion from limited frames from the eyes. This may be a case demonstrating exaclty that. It is rather hard to switch directions when looking that the gif as a whole, because before you realize the brain is already 'believing' and mapping our the direction of rotation and rationalize everything else. Thus, it makes me shudder to think, in other applications, some people may believe strongly even when they are wrong. | ||
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d0da
United States103 Posts
either way i don't buy the left and right brain thing. I am 100% sure i am not a right brain and I've taken many tests on it. All of which said I was left. | ||
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ArC_man
United States2798 Posts
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a-game
Canada5118 Posts
On October 15 2007 07:18 potchip wrote: Thus, it makes me shudder to think, in other applications, some people may believe strongly even when they are wrong. yeah it's scary to realize how the brain can be manipulated so easily and it's so hard to override it once it's tricked. damn brain :/ | ||
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Mynock
4492 Posts
On October 15 2007 07:25 d0da wrote: This thing is stupid I am very logical in my thinking and concrete. A definite left brainer. Math and science are the only subjects i am interested in and achieve above and beyond in and I see it as clockwise. Why? The way the arms and the legs are shaped shows her momentum is going in the clockwise direction. If you have ever seen any kind of turn in by a human being you'd know it would look silly making that form going counter clockwise. Also look at the shadow on the bottom. When it is in front it moves from right to left. from 5 to 7 o'clock positions. either way i don't buy the left and right brain thing. I am 100% sure i am not a right brain and I've taken many tests on it. All of which said I was left. Well, her arm has nothing to do with it, since the direction of the arm also changes when she changes the motion and it is all very natural again (if you succeed once in seeing her going otherwise you'll see what I mean). It's a lot easier to describe the switch as just a decision to see her from top or from bottom. However, everything else you've said is correct and applies to me as well. I see her predominantly as clockwise, yet I am a definite left-brainer. Same goes for most of my friends who I know are left-brainers according to all the other tests as well. (Not to mention the TL ratio would then be more than 2:1 in favour of the right-brainers, when we all it can't be any further from the truth on an all-geek, all-nerd computer gaming website). So the problem is not what kind of judgment you can pass about your brain according to this image, but rather that you can't pass any at all. The illusion itself is fun and all still. Just no need to make up a story to all of this, like the OP did (probably not his fault tho, he must have seen it somewhere else). | ||
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Funchucks
Canada2113 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
On October 15 2007 07:38 Funchucks wrote: The right-brained/left-brained personality thing is goofy pseudoscience. Please don't talk about it like a real thing. Its just a model that has been developed which can be used to explain/predict certain behavior. Of course its not perfect, but useful nonetheless. (I wouldn't call it pseudoscience, its just a model) | ||
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LucasWoJ
United States936 Posts
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uvaer
Norway157 Posts
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Funchucks
Canada2113 Posts
On October 15 2007 07:49 fight_or_flight wrote: Its just a model that has been developed which can be used to explain/predict certain behavior. Of course its not perfect, but useful nonetheless. (I wouldn't call it pseudoscience, its just a model) Sure. And so is the "four humours" (or in modern language, "four bodily fluids") model of emotion. The left/right brained thing did start as something presented as science, was debunked, and now contributes nothing but confusion. If you hadn't noticed, there are people here who actually think this is a valid test for a brain trait that doesn't even exist. Calling it "just a model" is a weak excuse for parroting bad science from decades ago. | ||
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turk
United States383 Posts
holy shit! leave me alone! i'm so psyched out right now! | ||
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ReTr0[p.S]
Argentina1590 Posts
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
On October 15 2007 08:01 Funchucks wrote: Sure. And so is the "four humours" (or in modern language, "four bodily fluids") model of emotion. The left/right brained thing did start as something presented as science, was debunked, and now contributes nothing but confusion. If you hadn't noticed, there are people here who actually think this is a valid test for a brain trait that doesn't even exist. Calling it "just a model" is a weak excuse for parroting bad science from decades ago. lolwut? | ||
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
I question the validity of those tests and that 'specimin'. How do you know that guy isn't just making shit up or just thinking a bit more slowly now. | ||
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Funchucks
Canada2113 Posts
Yes, the observing the effects of brain splitting surgery led to a lot of interesting and valid research about differences in the left and right hemispheres of the brain. However, the idea that people are dominantly left-brained or dominantly right-brained is sheer unsupported garbage. Take poetry, for example. That's an artistic "right-brained" trait, right? Well, language processing is focused in the left hemisphere, so that's pure bullshit. Most people could only be called "left-brain dominant". The left brain ordinarily gets more blood, is a bit bigger, controls the more coordinated right hand, and handles sophisticated grammar. It has nothing to do with whether you're rational or emotional, mathematical or artsy, calculating or creative. Most popular pseudoscience is based on some tiny grain of scientific truth, but it's distorted into absolute nonsense. This left-brained/right-brained thing is like that. | ||
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