Right Brain vs Left Brain Test

[Seareach]

Yeah, I can make it go both ways now...but gotta concentrate for the counter clockwise one.

[The Laughing Man]

if you perceive the extended leg going from right to left in the background, you see it as clockwise, and if you perceive it in the foreground you have counter. mind wobbling!

[Edge]

I've found that every time I look away and then back again, she reverses direction.

[Queeaqueg]

She keeps changing. One minute she goes clockwise and then anti-clockwise... what does that mean?

[The Laughing Man]

it means it's

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SPARK< TIME!


this is way better with drugs.....

[Avatar]

She goes either direction for me, depending on what I want.

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[emotional leper]

I don't have a large enough pane of glass and a pulley and winch system, or a naked chick, to test this with, but from the reflection underneath her she seems to be moving clockwise.

[Loredoctor]

She goes anti-clockwise for me. But to spoil the party for everyone, I don't think that is a valid test for right or left hemisphere 'domination'. Functions many believe that are localised to particular hemispheres are often spread out across both hemispheres.

[emotional leper]

She goes anti-clockwise for me. But to spoil the party for everyone, I don't think that is a valid test for right or left hemisphere 'domination'. Functions many believe that are localised to particular hemispheres are often spread out across both hemispheres.

I wish I had a portable FMRI for whenever questions like this arise in real life.

[Loredoctor]

She goes anti-clockwise for me. But to spoil the party for everyone, I don't think that is a valid test for right or left hemisphere 'domination'. Functions many believe that are localised to particular hemispheres are often spread out across both hemispheres.

I wish I had a portable FMRI for whenever questions like this arise in real life.

Hey, it's fMRI.

[Menolly]

*nod*

Yep...

Definitely clockwise

[emotional leper]

She goes anti-clockwise for me. But to spoil the party for everyone, I don't think that is a valid test for right or left hemisphere 'domination'. Functions many believe that are localised to particular hemispheres are often spread out across both hemispheres.

I wish I had a portable FMRI for whenever questions like this arise in real life.

Hey, it's fMRI.

Tell that to my keyboard.

[I'm Murrin]

She goes anti-clockwise for me. But to spoil the party for everyone, I don't think that is a valid test for right or left hemisphere 'domination'. Functions many believe that are localised to particular hemispheres are often spread out across both hemispheres.

Indeed. In fact, the purpose of this test originally was not to show dominance but to demonstrate hemisphere switching. I'm not sure why, but there's apparently a correlation between the way you perceive the rotation and which hemisphere is most active at the time of viewing. Most people see the figure switch when they begin reading the text beside it, for example.

[Loredoctor]

She goes anti-clockwise for me. But to spoil the party for everyone, I don't think that is a valid test for right or left hemisphere 'domination'. Functions many believe that are localised to particular hemispheres are often spread out across both hemispheres.

Indeed. In fact, the purpose of this test originally was not to show dominance but to demonstrate hemisphere switching. I'm not sure why, but there's apparently a correlation between the way you perceive the rotation and which hemisphere is most active at the time of viewing. Most people see the figure switch when they begin reading the text beside it, for example.

Well said. I think the test, if anything, reveals that the frontal lobe plays a part in switching attention (or inhibiting elements of attention).

[Seareach]

Now we've all given that part of our lobe situated in the high brow a good work out...back to spinning....

[Loredoctor]

My apologies.

[Seareach]

I winked. You know me well enough to know my humor is deadpan (and sarcastic!!!), Lore. Yes, I know...that doesn't work well on a discussion board but...heh...

[emotional leper]

So would the fact that I'm unable to make it switch at all, despite an hour or so of staring and fiddling and trying, indicate that I'm horribly one-hemisphere dominant?

And how would brain damage come into this?

[[Syl]]

Indeed. In fact, the purpose of this test originally was not to show dominance but to demonstrate hemisphere switching. I'm not sure why, but there's apparently a correlation between the way you perceive the rotation and which hemisphere is most active at the time of viewing. Most people see the figure switch when they begin reading the text beside it, for example.

Ahhh. That makes sense. Both times I've seen this (first time was a few days ago on break.com), it was going clockwise at first, and then it switched to counterclockwise and stayed that way.

[I'm Murrin]

Hey I finally got it--I've been able for a while to get it to switch by concentrating for several seconds on the legs, but now I've actually got it to switch immediately whenever I want. And I don't even "feel" it switch any more--it's much smoother.