Posted on 08/11/2013 11:43:39 AM PDT by Errant
Roger Sperry won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his work on what is now commonly known as right brain-left brain thinking. Sperry theorized that some very specific activities were controlled by one side of the human brain or the other — for example, the right side controlled creative tasks, while the left side was where logic, language and reasoning lived.
People were fascinated by the idea, and in the three decades since, bookstores, television, the Internet and college psychology classes everywhere have been filled with endless discussions of the differences between right-brain, left-brain, and whole-brain thinkers.
(Ironically, Sperry’s Nobel prize, like his theory, was also split: two Harvard doctors were also recognized that year in the same medicine and physiology category for their discoveries in visual system processing.)
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This thread is too long already. Is this subject of world-shaking importance? All you easily distracted people out there, get back to our country’s real problems.
I unfortunately am researching a relative's possible beginning Alzheimers right now, so have to go.
The same thing happens to me. I look down for a second and she changes direction. I guess that means I am confused.
Hey, give us break! Most of us had a pretty big hand in building her!
You have a lot of company. ;)
This image does not deal with left-right thinking.
If I stare at her for the 30 seconds, while she is spinning counterclockwise, which she usually is when I first look, she instantly changes directions and begins spinning clockwise after 15-16 seconds. So I suppose that means I’m a dominant right brain thinker.
How so?
Someone on the Blaze comment board explained it. It has nothing to do with right brain or left brain. It is an optical illusion. If look at either lower corner of the pic, she will change direction, if you look at the center of her body, near the hips, you will see her change direction in the middle of a rotation.
Okay, but that doesn’t explain how some only ever see her spinning in one direction.
... and if that dancer looks at the floor, she’s still perceiving herself as spinning in the same direction that you perceive as an outside observer, there is no reversal. Stand behind her, it’s the same. Front, back, the same. The visual representation of the plane upon which she’s spinning is just as solid as she is, therefore theperspective from beneath her is unavailable to the observer accepting of the visual representation. No one but an engineer would take issue with describing her motion as clockwise or counterclockwise. I assume you are one.
How’s it coming, solving this country’s problems with your laser-like focus, lol?
So, you like black women that spin in circles?
I can make her turn either way except onto my bed.........
The perception of motion is not a left or right brain issue.
The two halves of the brain do not offer different ways to perceive motion. This is a false test.
Here’s something I’ve noticed. Is she looking to her left, or to her right?
>> “No one but an engineer would take issue with describing her motion as clockwise or counterclockwise. I assume you are one.” <<
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No one but an engineer can use his intellect to earn a living without compromising his morals. May I assume you’re not one?
Depends on which way you spin her.
Now when I look, she is swinging back and forth most of the time.
Ridiculous statement, born of mistaken defensiveness over a question not directed to you. Engineering cannot be put to immoral purpose, lol? Please.
Yep, that’s kind of odd. She’s always looking in the direction she’s spinning.
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