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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I can see it spinning both ways. What’s up with that?
Just like a woman.
You spin from your feet upward.
:)
You might be gay.
Looks like the opening credits of a James Bond movie.
Strictly clockwise until I started looking at it out of the corner of my eye. Then it goes clockwise out of the corner of my left eye and stays that way until I look at it out of the corner of my right, then it’s counterclockwise and stays that way, until I shift to the left, and so forth. No switching back and forth in my primary field of vision.
Lol
Amen...my first thought too
Got me. I can see it spinning both ways too. We need some ladies to chime in. I have a theory that the spinning subject used, influences the male observer, and affects the results.
I could only see her spinning clockwise, and couldn’t force another impression until I just looked at the shadow of her foot and concentrated on that spinning counter-clockwise...BAM...instant switch.
lol that’s what I was thinking... ;)
Same with me. I guess we are seriously left brained.
She is a spinner...my preference
Spinning to her right
Lovely
I
Scrambled Brains...
Rotate the image 90 degrees every 15 seconds.
I can, especially if I bump the scroll.
One second it is counter clockwise, and the next it is clockwise. I’m so confused.
The trick to make it spin in either direction is to look at the shadow of her foot. If you convince yourself that it is in the foreground then she will be spinning clockwise when you look at the whole image. If you convince yourself that it is in the background and it is showing foot movement when the foot is behind her then she will be spinning counterclockwise.
Wikipedia article on this image:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_Dancer
Noteworthy in it is this line: In popular psychology, the illusion has been incorrectly[6] identified as a personality test that supposedly reveals which hemisphere of the brain is dominant in the observer. Under this wrong interpretation, it has been popularly called the Right Brain–Left Brain test,[7] and was widely circulated on the Internet during late 2008 to early 2009.
Hol’ muh beer, I’m gonna to try standing on my head. lol
Looking at the shadow of her foot only, it seems it switches direction every 8 rotations.
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