Here's a web site that displays a simple animated figure. Depending on your hemispheric dominance you view the dancer in one of two ways. Special thanks to Wendy Christensen for passing it along to me and the group! http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
Here's the rub (for me that is...). Although I routinely score higher in right brain dominance - I can usually tread pretty well in both worlds. With this test however, I cannot view the dance in an anticlockwise direction. I've only tried for a few moments, but that's usually all it takes for examples like this. I can always see the "two pictures" in an optical illusion, or the stereo image in those "noise pictures", maybe I'm more right-brained than I thought?
I'll have to get my left brain thinking about that....
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This image is somewhat baffling to me. I could only see her spinning in a clockwise direction, no matter how hard I tried to get her to switch. Then I looked away for just a moment, and when I looked back, she was spinning anticlockwise. I looked away again, and she has returned to spinning clockwise. I completely agree with you, Dave; I don't understand where the illusion lies. I guess this means I am more right brained, since she was spinning clockwise more often, but who knows?
I saw it clockwise, although ever once in awhile, it would start to go counter. I had my son, who has asperger's look and he saw it clockwise, my youngest daughter, who is very artistic, saw it clockwise too. Then I had my husband look, who I feel is left brained, and he saw it clockwise too. Then I had him take the right brain test, and as I thought, he is very left brained. So I am not so sure about the illusion either.
It's very interesting to read your comments after watching her spin counter clockwise. Gwyn, your familiy's participation leads to a curious place. I scoresd 8 right brain, 11 left on the online test so thought I was a bit more left brained, but can't see how the dancer could move clockwise. Did your husband take the quiz? I wonder how his scorong worked out. Then there are always other variables working, what about the food I ate this morning, or how much sleep I had last night, or the noise, oh, I mean music loudly coming from my daughter's room. How will these things influence which way the dancer seems to be turning if I am a person that is nearly border line right or left brained. (Or is thinking of these possibilities a left brained activity?)
I did this activity twice. The first time I only saw her spinning anit-clockwise. This makes sense since I am more of a left brain thinker. I went back and did it again about an hour later and I could only see her spinning clockwise. I thought if I looked away it would change but it did not. So two times, two completely different results. I thought I was more left brained but apparently not! I did ask a few of my students to look and they all saw her spinning anti-clockwise. It would be interesting to see if they see something different a second time like I did.
WOW! I tried to see the dancer spinning anti-clockwise and it didn't happen. I've always known I was a right brainer - this is just one more conformation. While I regret not being able to see the dancer spinning in BOTH directions, I do find that I always try to "see" both sides to a story. I suppose that makes sense because the dancer is a visual, graphic image, and a story is more nebulous. Both seem to be characteristics of a classic right brainer.
Sue Mandia
Lower Salford 5th
This image seemed to change directions when I first opened it, but then all I could see was the clockwise motion. This seems a bit unusual because I seem to be more left brained. Don't know about the image.
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