dancing woman test: right brained or left-brained

[GottabeKB]

Are you more prominently right-brained or left-brained?
Check out this website to see which you are: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/right-brain-v-left-brain/story-e6frf7jo-1111114603615

This test intrigued me because I know that INTP's are very logical and detailed to some extent and shared aspects of the left-brain but our intuition is associated largely with the right-brain. Therefore it would be interesting to see whether the majority of INTP's are prominently right-brained or left-brained.

If immediately upon watching the animation, the woman is spinning clockwise then you are prominently right-brained, esp. if you cannot reverse the woman to spin counterclockwise. If you immediately see the woman spinning counter-clockwise then you are prominently left-brained; again, especially if you cannot reverse the woman to spin clockwise.
Of course this is just a test which I don't know the accuracy of. I am skeptical whether these correlations are accurate whatsoever.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

Clockwise, right brained. It took me quite a while to turn her counter-clockwise(I'd say 30 seconds of strong focusing), but I eventually managed to make her turn counter-clockwise.

I doubt that this test is of any significance though. But I am in general more of a head-in-the-clouds person, who relies more on understanding the big picture of things and is constantly philosophizing and such. On the other hand I am very skeptical to a lot of things, and try to explain everything by logic as far as it doesn't have to do too much with math.(I'm really bad at maths, for some reason I've grown to just get extremely bored and annoyed by it quickly. It's awesome how you can explain a lot of things with math though, just not my thing.)

 

[Jennywocky]

I see her clockwise, automatically.

If I leave the image for a few moments and then go back, I can consciously "force myself" to see her from the other perspective. But it took me a few tries before I realized I just needed to leave the image behind by flipping the page down, letting my mind reset, then going back and trying to focus on her the other way.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

I saw her spinning clockwise, but I had fun switching her back and forth. It took a minute or so the first time, but now I can do it in seconds.
Five minutes of my life, happily wasted.

 

[Lostwitheal]

I see her clockwise, automatically.

If I leave the image for a few moments and then go back, I can consciously "force myself" to see her from the other perspective. But it took me a few tries before I realized I just needed to leave the image behind by flipping the page down, letting my mind reset, then going back and trying to focus on her the other way.

Funnily enough I just did exactly the same thing.

 

[dark]

Holy shit that hurt my brain...

I saw it going clockwise while I was writing a story yesterday, then after a day of working on my car I saw it going counterclockwise...

What does that mean? Is it possible for the brain to flip, because my head does hurt when I do things like working on my car, it always does me good to rest from it and try to write, play guitar or draw.

 

[GottabeKB]

Holy shit that hurt my brain...

I saw it going clockwise while I was writing a story yesterday, then after a day of working on my car I saw it going counterclockwise...

What does that mean? Is it possible for the brain to flip, because my head does hurt when I do things like working on my car, it always does me good to rest from it and try to write, play guitar or draw.

Huh... I find this very interesting. Perhaps because you were focusing on details and logic while fixing your car you saw the woman turning counter-clockwise since you were using the left side of your brain. Then when you were writing a story and were using your creative, big picture, intuitive side, you saw the woman turning clockwise and therefore using the right-side of your brain more. Perhaps you are naturally attuned to using your right brain but you can use your left brain predominately when you do things that are more detailed than others.... like fixing your car! Then your head hurts because you don't use your left brain as much as your right brain. Of course these are simply musings. Maybe I should try doing something really detailed like that and see if I can reverse the clockwise spinning woman. It aggravates me that I can't do it!

I think it would be interesting to see some sensors do this test and see if they see the woman spinning counter clockwise. If so then this would back up my hypothesis that intuitive types would most likely see the woman spinning clockwise, while sensing types would see the woman spinning counter-clockwise

 

[dark]

For the 1st hour or so I was with my gf yesterday, only a couple hours after working on my car and viewing the left side of the brain image, she told me I was slightly different than usual, then after a while of doing my normal random acts I started to feel better and I became myself.

Now I can't even figure out which way it is spinning. Rofl.

It is really odd how the brain can view a completely blank non-descriptive image as something realistic in action. Perception is really interesting.

 

[SpaceYeti]

Boobies.

 

[ApostateAbe]

I saw her going clockwise, then I stared at her for a minute, and then I wanted to rub one off.

The test has nothing to do with whether a person is left-brained or right-brained, and this is just another urban legend, which depends on another urban legend that people can be usefully categorized that way. Someone did the dirty work:

ScienceLine.org: Does the “Right Brain vs. Left Brain” Spinning Dancer Test Work?

Answer: No, it is bullshit.

 

[GottabeKB]

I saw her going clockwise, then I stared at her for a minute, and then I wanted to rub one off.

The test has nothing to do with whether a person is left-brained or right-brained, and this is just another urban legend, which depends on another urban legend that people can be usefully categorized that way. Someone did the dirty work:

ScienceLine.org: Does the “Right Brain vs. Left Brain” Spinning Dancer Test Work?

Answer: No, it is bullshit.

Hmm fair enough. Stupid internet quizzes proclaiming lies! Well so much for this thread... I guess the test doesn't really measure anything at all unfortunately. Sorry guys but it was fun while it lasted

 

[Anchorite]

I saw her counter clock-wise for the first 20 seconds or so. After looking away for a second, it switched to clock-wise.

 

[Nocturne]

How interesting. The first time I saw this moving image, it was spinning counter clock-wise. When I looked at somehting else, then focusing back on the moving image, it was spinning clock wise. Hmmm... explanation? Am I right-brained or left- brained, technically?

 

[crippli]

It went counterclockwise for 10 seconds. Blinked. Clockwise. And I can not turn it.

Normally/always it just goes clockwise, so a bit odd this time.

Seems I am preprogrammed. Can't make it to just stop, because it's not really spinning. It's the same with me regarding movies. 24 frames pr second seems to do the trick of creating an illusion of fluid motion.

 

[ElvenVeil]

haha I simply cannot see the counter clockwise part.. So according to the OP then I am using my right brain

 

[GottabeKB]

So apparentely guys this is completely false according to the link provided by ApostateAbe: ScienceLine.org: Does the “Right Brain vs. Left Brain” Spinning Dancer Test Work?

You would you unbeliever!
Regardless of whether it actually measures whether you use your right brain or left brain more than the other... I finally got it to turn counter-clockwise! I focused on the leg spinning for a while and consciously tried to make it turn the other way and I got it finally. If only that actually meant something... Unfortunately this test is simply another test to see whether you are skeptical enough to realize that it probably isn't very accurate.

 

[Taniwha]

I'm a logical, right brained thinker.

She is spinning on her left foot, moving clockwise.

 

[dark]

Regardless of what this thing does, it is interesting to view how our perception of a non-descriptive image works.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I still don't completely understand how this image works, can somebody explain?

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I still don't completely understand how this image works, can somebody explain?

+1

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

I saw counter-clockwise: I guess I'm left-brained hmmm.....

 

[Coolydudey60]

I was clockwise... it's interestring though

 

[sammael]

Constantly changes direction for me, whether i focus or not. Most of the time she was just switching from side to side.

I still don't completely understand how this image works, can somebody explain?

From ApostateAbes link:

So what does the spinning dancer tell us? The whole test is more of an optical illusion than anything else, according to Steven Novella, an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine who blogs on NeuroLogica. When our brains process visual images to make some order or sense of the world, they have to make assumptions. The dancer is just a two dimensional image switching back and forth, but our brains process it as a three dimensional spinning object.
Depending on the assumptions made and visual cues picked up, your brain can make the dancer spin either way.

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

Constantly changes direction for me, whether i focus or not. Most of the time she was just switching from side to side.



From ApostateAbes link:

Yeah I'm skeptical of 2 aspects of this:

1) 1 interpretation of a model can tell you whether you have a preference for 'right-brained'/'left-brained' preferences.

2) Division of the left/right brain is connected to the preference of these 2.

 

[tree]

I can see it both ways, when I look away and look back it's going one way or the other, without any real pattern. If I concentrate on one of my own feet while looking at her bottom foot, I can get her to switch to that foot.

 

[Zmaster]

What if she didn't make a full rotation at all? Does that mean I don't have a brain or I'm just undecided? To me she seemed like she was swinging on her same foot back and forth like a clock. ....I took another look and it seems the direction of movement is based on the illusion of which body part your focusing on. Breasts or Arms is clock wise, Butt or Head is counter clockwise and legs is a swaying back and forth

 

[Particle]

I don't see how she could be spinning CCW. The animation just doesn't seem to allow for it. I find that confusing since I'm a software engineer, digital logic designer, and general purpose scientific solver. I couldn't be those things if details, logic, and facts weren't a primary trait.

 

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counter clockwise and I have massive trouble getting it to spin the other way. I think I saw this a few years ago and I could.

edit: I wonder what it takes to make the image change direction. Is it just a matter of distracting yourself? Anyone have a technique?

 

[xbox]

counterclockwise for a few minutes, then clockwise again.. weird.

 

[SkyWalker]

isnt this left-brain right-brain stuff supposed to be just popular pseudo-science / pseudo-psychology....
brain laterization is sometimes visible, but its complex, its not such a simple left/right thing.

 

[Particle]

Interesting. Today seems to be a CCW day.

 

[PapyrusAirplanes]

How on earth are you supposed to see that as anything other than clockwise? She is spinning to her right. No matter where you put the clock on her feet, she always kicks the hands in a clockwise motion.

 

[Chimera]

God I love this thing.
For me it starts at counter clockwise, switches to clockwise by the next kick, then I'm stuck seeing her just kicking back and forth in the front.

Tip: If you can't see the opposite direction, try focusing on the toe of her kicking foot while forcing yourself to perceive that the leg is in front of her torso, not behind.
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