Conservative Left Brain, Liberal Right Brain? (Neuropolitics.org)

[Joanne98]

Run time: 09:13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmdG3Xa4v0g   Posted on YouTube: March 20, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 21, 2009 By DU Member: Joanne98 Views on DU: 2816

 


Here's you can check to see which one you are! If you see her going counter-clockwise you're left.

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

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

[veganlush]

1. what does it mean if you can see her

..nipples? sorry. this is very cool..thanks for posting...:P

[DKRC]

8. Step away from the dial-up

:evilgrin:

[veganlush]

26. umm

:hi:

[DKRC]

27. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[veganlush]

30. Thank you!

:fistbump:

[eleny]

2. I see her spinning clockwise

Edited to add that I also relate to lots of items in the first list. And I don't relate to things in the second list such as "fantasy based". But it's interesting.

[Joanne98]

3. Clockwise is right-brain. I see her counter-clockwise....

[eleny]

5. My husband sees it changing

He said it goes clockwise for a while and then changes to counter. Back and forth each for a while.

[Hissyspit]

7. You can consciously control which way you perceive her spinning. It is a graphic perceptual

image according to W. J. T. Mitchell's categorizations, but it doesn't have anything to do with right or left brain "dominance." See post #6. I focus on her foot to make it switch back and forth for me.

[AtheistCrusader]

20. I just decide which leg she's standing on.

Right or left. The rotation flows from that. If she's standing on her left leg she is going clockwise. Standing on her right leg, it's counter-clockwise.

I don't see this having crap-all to do with being right or left brain oriented.

[Hissyspit]

23. It doesn't.

[Joanne98]

25. So does my sister. I can only see it one way.

[Hissyspit]

6. It is a fallacy/canard that there is a relationship between the right and left brain-function

and the spinning woman illusion. The truth seems to be that all your spatial perception is right-brain lateralized.

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php?p=27

The spinning girl is a form of the more general spinning silhouette illusion. The image is not objectively “spinning” in one direction or the other. It is a two-dimensional image that is simply shifting back and forth. But our brains did not evolve to interpret two-dimensional representations of the world but the actual three-dimensional world. So our visual processing assumes we are looking at a 3-D image and is uses clues to interpret it as such. Or, without adequate clues it may just arbitrarily decide a best fit - spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. And once this fit is chosen, the illusion is complete - we see a 3-D spinning image.

By looking around the image, focusing on the shadow or some other part, you may force your visual system to reconstruct the image and it may choose the opposite direction, and suddenly the image will spin in the opposite direction.
This news article, like many others, ignores the true source of this optical illusion and instead claims it is a quick test to see if you use more of your right brain or left brain. This is utter nonsense, but the “right-brain/left brain” thing is in the public consciousness and won’t be going away anytime soon. Sure, we have two hemispheres that operate fine independently and have different abilities, but they are massively interconnected and work together as a seamless whole (providing you have never had surgery to cut your corpus callosum).

We also do have hemispheric dominance, but that determines mostly your handedness and the probability of language being on the right or the left. There is also often asymmetry for memory, with some being right or left hemisphere dominant. But none of this means that your personality or abilities are more right brain or left brain. That much is nonsense.

Further, how your visual cortex constructs this optical illusion says nothing about your hemispheric dominance, and is absolutely not a quick personality profile.

[bjobotts]

11. The way to make her change directions is to look at her foot shadow and she'll switch

[Hissyspit]

12. Yes, that's the way I find it best to do it. Probably because the foot has the most extreme action.

Your brain is looking for spatial clues in an image that has no actual space.

[veganlush]

4. I see her as clockwise most of the time,..

..but sometimes, upon looking away and then looking back at her, she'll be rotating counter-clockwise.

[Hissyspit]

9. Right-brain left-brain theory exaggerated:

www.wikipedia.org

Hines (1987) states that the research on brain lateralization is valid as a research program, though commercial promoters have applied it to promote subjects and products far out of the implications of the research. For example, the implications of the research have no bearing on psychological interventions such as EMDR and neurolinguistic programming (Drenth 2003:53), brain training equipment, or management training. One explanation for why research on lateralization is so prone to exaggeration and false application is that the left-right brain dichotomy is an easy-to-understand notion, which can be oversimplified and misused for promotion in the guise of science.<17> The research on lateralization of brain functioning is ongoing, and its implications are always tightly delineated, whereas the pseudoscientific applications are exaggerated, and applied to an extremely wide range of situations.

[DKRC]

10. See her turning both ways

Does that mean I left my right mind? :silly:

[bjobotts]

14. I can make her switch back and forth by looking away and then looking at her shadow foot

[bjobotts]

15. This work for anyone else and what does that mean.

[proReality]

13. Clockwise first, but when I blink

I see it going counter clockwise. Blink again and it's clockwise.

[valerief]

16. I'm a southpaw, but back in the 80s I learned to mouse with my right hand.

When I first saw her, I saw counter-clockclockwise. Then I put the mouse in my left hand and moved it around. She began spinning clockwise. I moved the mouse to my right hand again, expecting her to switch again, but she continued to spin clockwise. I wonder if it has to do with my brain going from reading text to focusing on a non-language image.

[espiral]

17. This has to be...

...the nerdiest YouTube video that I have ever seen! :D

[valerief]

18. You missed the part where the hunky guy mooned the camera? nt

[WhoIsNumberNone]

19. I'm trying to see her going counter-clockwise

and it's giving me a headache. She's going clockwise. I guess this means I failed my republican test.




I can see her nipples too. Probably means I'm under sexed.

[AtheistCrusader]

21. 'see' the leg she's standing on, as her right leg. You'll flip it.

[earcandle]

22. The ability to deal with ambiguity is a sign of mental health

-Dr. Budante (sp?)

That was interesting.

I am not sure I agree with the conclusions though.
The ideas express an inability to notice a lack of freedom and
creativity to deal with the paradoxes in elegant ways.
Instead there is a compulsion to turn delightful intelligence
into a DMS category of weakness or dysfunction.

Go figure.  
Kill off the geniuses by making people afraid of them so they
lock them up or make them mad enough to
wreak some havok and are duped into giving evidence for their
lies.

I don't appreciate the direction of this piece.

But it does have merit (IMNSHO) on bringing up the subject in
the first place.

I will link it to my noodlebrain site. 

best,
d

[snake in the grass]

24. For the most part she turns clockwise for me.

If I don't look directly at her, she sometimes changes direction. Fascinating.

[CTyankee]

28. I clearly see her turning from clockwise to counter clockwise. Is this not evident to everyone?

She's on another foot! I don't get it. I see it happening so clearly. What does this mean about my brain?

[snake in the grass]

29. I think...

...our brains can't decide.