are you right brained or left brain dominant?

[Pieter]

If they didn't use perspective, and you'd look at the dancer from a direction that makes a right angle with the rotation axis, then the silhouette of a left and right turning dancer would both look exactly the same, so in that case, the direction you see it turn into would really only depend on your brain.

In this case, that doesn't seem to be the case though, since her foot seems to be a bit lower when it sweeps from right to left, than from left to right, which should mean that she's really turning clockwise.

[Stasy]

That`s interesting! I liked this test.Thank you for explanation.

[voodoo scientist]

For a person with a normally functioning brain there is no such thing as "left" or "right" brained.

The idea that a person can be left or right brain dominant was actually adopted from research on patients who had their corpus collosum severed, usually due to grand mal seizures. The idea was born from poor research review by media persons. The corpus collosum connects the two hemispheres of your brain. It is true that various functions are centralized in one hemisphere of the brain, however, they often have a complimentary component in the other half. For example, word recognition and speech production is generally in the left hemisphere, but the ability to alternate the pitch and tone of your voice generally resides in the right hemisphere.

Unless your corpus collosum is severed or you are a special case, you cannot use one half of the brain without using the other as well.

The spinning girl is merely an optical illusion that results with silhouettes. Our brains use certain visual cues to interpret movement and spatial orientation but they are in fact interpretations of what it is really occurring and not necessarily accurate.

Why isn't this guy around anymore?

[behaviorminded]

Question: I've looked at the dancing girl image several times and have only seen it spin clockwise, tonight it spin counter-clockwise.  Why is this?

[SWM]

i think it has something to do with how your brain is interpeting the information that it recieves.

http://psychology-forum.com/general-psychology-forum/make-this-girl-do-anything-you-want-to

[NataEames]

I don't get it. I just see it as a 2D animation. 2D can't spin. Does that mean there is something wrong with my brain?

[survivordean]

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking


I see a dancer rotating clockwise so it means I am a right-brained. But I took a test on blogthings and I discovered I appear to have 55% Left Brained, 45% Right Brained.

[Mahiqun]

I see her turning some time clockwise and then changing direction and I can exactly tell when she changes it. Maybe that's why I don't fit into the scheme.

[pixx]

I can see it rotating in both directions. Seems I am not alone in this view. There is some intuitive preference though. I would prefer to rotate kinda more graciously clockwise. There is some beauty in that kind of movement.

Just did a test too (later link) and whoa - really interesting - came out 50-50%.

Gosh, never thought to test this before. Maybe I am indecisive what part of the brain to use

[iNuha]

Clockwise!

[tmuwra]

Clockwise.  But I can make her go the other too, though I have to look away and then look back to do it.