Are you a right or left brained thinker?

[bobhikes]

The Right Brain vs Left Brain | The Daily Telegraph

I believe this one game has helped my relationship with my son and is going to improve the way he learns.

There are several tests out there that rate how well you use your right brain and left brain. There so/so I'm not posting any but it educated me on the subject. I realized my son is more right brained then me. Quick search and there are techniques to help him in school.


I owe RF for this one.:clap

 

[ChristineES]

That's cool. The first moment I looked at it, I saw her going counter clockwise, but spontaneously and without trying, within about three seconds, she started going clockwise.

Same thing happens to me. But it keeps changing back to counter clockwise when I look away for awhile and look back again. My mind doesn't know which side to use.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I didn't notice which was she was spinning - I just kept staring at her butt. This is the result of being a complex thinker who uses his whole brain.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Clockwise and stays clockwise no matter how much I look at it.

It's easy to switch perspectives if you focus on just one part of the body. For example, if you see her spinning clockwise, you're seeing her ankle go in front when it moves right-to-left, and behind when it goes left-to-right. Keep watching just her ankle, and when it goes left-to-right, imagine that her ankle is in front rather than behind. This should instantly switch your perspective. It might take a couple of tries, but once you get it, you'll be able to do it at will. The key is to not look at the whole image - too many cues to overcome your initial perspective.

 

[Penumbra]

Every right/left brain test I've ever taken has said I am left brain by a fairly large margin. But I see her going clockwise and no matter what I do she won't spin the other way, and clockwise is associated with right brain.

 

[Revoltingest]

Every right/left brain test I've ever taken has said I am left brain by a fairly large margin. But I see her going clockwise and no matter what I do she won't spin the other way, and clockwise is associated with right brain.

If truly a left brainer you are, then you'll figure out a method to get her spinning anti-clockwise.
Tis a matter of controlling visual perception.....tricky, but doable. I have faith in you.

 

[Penumbra]

If truly a left brainer you are, then you'll figure out a method to get her spinning anti-clockwise.
Tis a matter of controlling visual perception.....tricky, but doable. I have faith in you.

I tried a few ways, but none worked.

I tried thinking about it differently. I tried closing one eye. I tried Kilgore Trout's method of focusing on her ankle.

I've always been weak in the field of picturing 3 dimensional things (and spatial perception is a right brain thing according to the article, so that makes sense!).

 

[Midnight Pete]

Not surprisingly, I am a right-brain thinker.

 

[monta]

I tried a few ways, but none worked.

I tried thinking about it differently. I tried closing one eye. I tried Kilgore Trout's method of focusing on her ankle.

I've always been weak in the field of picturing 3 dimensional things (and spatial perception is a right brain thing according to the article, so that makes sense!).

I can't see the 3d in movies or magic eye pictures either, can you?

 

[Penumbra]

I can't see the 3d in movies or magic eye pictures either, can you?

It depends.

I had to google magic eye pictures because I wasn't sure what they were. I don't see 3d in almost any of them, except for a few ones that have cubes. Cubes are easy to see in 3d for me. As for movies, I'm not really sure. I haven't gone to any 3d movies in a very long time. I remember being on some ride in a theme park like 6 years ago and I was able to experience the 3d in that. It's not like I'm completely devoid of seeing 3d. If that were the case, then I wouldn't be able to see the woman spin clockwise or counterclockwise, because both require some 3d perception.

It's just that I'm not very good at deliberately manipulating mental pictures. For instance, sometimes when I take an IQ test, there are questions where they have a picture of a complex 3d object cut open so that you can see all of the sides. The object has a specific design on it. And they ask you a question like, if the picture is folded back up into its shape, what does the back look like? And they give options.

I always do terrible on those types of questions where I have to envision and manipulate a 3 dimensional object. So some of that may be at play for me and this spinning woman.

 

[Falvlun]

Bah. I started out counter-clockwise and then read that you could change. I changed her to clockwise almost immediately, and now I can't get back to counter-clockwise.

 

[Wannabe Yogi]

I can only see it clockwise, my son counter-clockwise but can make it go both ways.

 

[dogsgod]

There is no such thing as people being predominately right brained or left brained, we use our brains regardless of whether certain functions originate on the left side or the right. The rotating picture has nothing to do with what is written in that article.

 

[Midnight Pete]

There is no such thing as people being predominately right brained or left brained, we use our brains regardless of whether certain functions originate on the left side or the right. The rotating picture has nothing to do with what is written in that article.

Sure sure it does. Did you read the article?

 

[Kathryn]

There is no such thing as people being predominately right brained or left brained, we use our brains regardless of whether certain functions originate on the left side or the right. The rotating picture has nothing to do with what is written in that article.

Well, doggone it, if you said it, it MUST be true.

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Got any sources to back up your assertion?

 

[dogsgod]

People are not left or right brained thinkers, people think the same and they use the left or right side depending on function.


Lateralization of brain function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Renji]

hmm, during my first few seconds looking at the animation, I can see it go clockwise. But later on, I can see it go counter clockwise.

 

[Walkntune]

People are not left or right brained thinkers, people think the same and they use the left or right side depending on function.


Lateralization of brain function - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well true people use both sides as we can mmake it spin in in either direction but that doesn't mean someone does not necessarily lean on one side or the other.
Saying people think the same is not even worth discussion.Some people are artistic and intuitive and others are more analytical.This is an easy observable fact even on this forum.

 

[Renji]

Saying people think the same is not even worth discussion.Some people are artistic and intuitive and others are more analytical.This is an easy observable fact even on this forum.

So true:yes: If we all think the same then, there wouldn't be any debates in this forum.:yes:

 

[Kathryn]

Well true people use both sides as we can mmake it spin in in either direction but that doesn't mean someone does not necessarily lean on one side or the other.
Saying people think the same is not even worth discussion.Some people are artistic and intuitive and others are more analytical.This is an easy observable fact even on this forum.

True dat. Painfully obvious at that!