Right Brain vs. Left Brain Test

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50/50 saw her turning in both directions easily. See what happens when you cover one of your eyes up. The right eye is controlled by the left half of the brain and the left eye is controlled by the right side of the brain.
 

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Interesting! I got her to switch when I changed my view of the monitor! Viewing from straight on she's going clockwise but if I more to the far left then she goes counterclockwise. This is so bizarre! I love this!
 

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OK, this thing is just fucking bizarre. Whilst watching one spot trying to time the sequence of her limbs passing, I saw the direction of her spinverted. Now I can actually flip back and forth at will how it appears to me. In my earlier post, I honestly only "saw" one direction of rotation, but could see how a change in point-of-view could lead one to call that CCW.

Here's another question for y'all:
How do the dancer's legs appear to you? Is she pivoting on her right leg or her left?

Impossible as it might seem, I see it change. When she turns CW (this is how it appears naturally to me), she's pivoting on her left foot with her right foot extended.such that it "follows" her right hip...but when I flip the image in my mind so she's turning CCW, I see her right foot planted and her left extended and following her left hip! Fascinating.
 

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Interesting observations. I saw clockwise to begin with, and struggled to see counterclockwise, with little success at first. When I finally forced myself to perceive the CCW turning, her lower foot (upon which she appears to be jumping) was still turning CW! I suppose that means I'm right-brain dominant.

It is odd, though, because even though I'm a fairly accomplished musician, I'm not terribly creative, science and math come very easily to me, and I'm right handed.

I don't remember where I read such things, but I do remember reading some other commentaries on one-side dominance in the brain. One that I thought was puzzling was the theory that those few left-handed people who write completely upside-down (I've only know a couple of them) had left-brain dominance. It didn't make sense to me, though, because I've never seen a right-handed person who wrote sideways or completely upside down, and you'd think that there were a few righties who had right-brain dominance.

Another test I heard about years ago was to hold your hands in front of you, shoulder height, shoulder width apart, and quickly bring your hands together, interlacing your fingers. Supposedly, whichever thumb ended up on top indicated your brain dominance. I don't recall if it was the same side or opposite side...
 

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clockwise, but i can make her turn at will either way.

i don't think this is exactly a good test for determining right/left brain dominance, but cool nonetheless.

i'm also left-handed which is associated with being right hemisphere dominant.
 

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OK, this thing is just fucking bizarre. Whilst watching one spot trying to time the sequence of her limbs passing, I saw the direction of her spinverted. Now I can actually flip back and forth at will how it appears to me.

Impossible as it might seem, I see it change. When she turns CW (this is how it appears naturally to me), she's pivoting on her left foot with her right foot extended.such that it "follows" her right hip...but when I flip the image in my mind so she's turning CCW, I see her right foot planted and her left extended and following her left hip! Fascinating.

I'm getting the same effect with the legs changing along with direction but haven't quite managed to switch "at will". This is as frustrating as the stereograms, I can only make it work by not trying to do so.

She started CCW to me then switched to CW then back and forth a few times more.
 

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Another test I heard about years ago was to hold your hands in front of you, shoulder height, shoulder width apart, and quickly bring your hands together, interlacing your fingers. Supposedly, whichever thumb ended up on top indicated your brain dominance. I don't recall if it was the same side or opposite side...

Yeah, I've heard of that interlaced finger test too. There is also the related test of crossing our arms or sitting indian style on the floor. I'm not sure what this has to do with right brain or left brain dominance, other than the fact that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and visa versa.


i don't think this is exactly a good test for determining right/left brain dominance, but cool nonetheless.

I'm also skeptical on the validity of this test. It's funny how most of us cannot force a change in her turning direction at will but it happens unexpectedly. I swore it was the program itself manipulating the direction and was trying to find the cues in her body sillouette that marked that change. I couldn't find any.
 

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I'm also skeptical on the validity of this test. It's funny how most of us cannot force a change in her turning direction at will but it happens unexpectedly. I swore it was the program itself manipulating the direction and was trying to find the cues in her body sillouette that marked that change. I couldn't find any.

It's an animated GIF, not a program. Any changes in direction are therefore self induced!!:tongue: