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[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEr2GfGilw[/YOUTUBE]
if you are right brained the dancer will spin clockwise
if you are left brained the dancer will spin counterclockwise



I am right brained (but with concentration can get the dancer to spin counterclockwise)
 
Weird. My perception changes depending on how fast it's spinning. At the beginning when it's spinning pretty fast, it looks counter-clockwise, but when it slows down later in the video, it looks clockwise. Hmm...
 
Interesting. I can only see her spinning counter-clockwise, and try as I may I simply cannot see her spinning clockwise. I'm blind in my left eye, I wonder if that has something to do with it...
 
I can only see her moving clockwise, no matter how hard I try!
 
ButImLETired said:
Interesting. I can only see her spinning counter-clockwise, and try as I may I simply cannot see her spinning clockwise. I'm blind in my left eye, I wonder if that has something to do with it...
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very interesting. Does anybody know if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body (I know nothing about anatomy/neuro)?
 
sankondbest said:
very interesting. Does anybody know if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body (I know nothing about anatomy/neuro)?
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The eyes work that way. The left eye's field of vision is processed in the right side of the brain, and vice versa. That's why I think it might have something to do with it. Pretty cool.
 
Same, DRLyss.. that's weird too, because I am way better at my science classes than my humanities classes.
 
No wonder I understand the art history articles better than bio articles... I cannot for the life of me get through pubmed articles... They bore me to death... maybe that is why I cannot see her clockwise...
 
funkydrmonkey said:
No wonder I understand the art history articles better than bio articles... I cannot for the life of me get through pubmed articles... They bore me to death... maybe that is why I cannot see her clockwise...
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later in the video when it says clockwise do you see it counter clockwise and vice versa when it says counter clockwise?
 
This doesn't work.
 
at first I only saw counterclockwise, but then clockwise as well.
 
I showed this to my girlfriend and the lady spins the opposite way for her....crazy.

😱
 
ButImLETired said:
The eyes work that way. The left eye's field of vision is processed in the right side of the brain, and vice versa. That's why I think it might have something to do with it. Pretty cool.
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^Not what he is asking. What he wants to know is about hemiparesis and crossed hemiparesis. So google it. And theres all sorts of reasons why.
 
I call shenanigans. I'm as left brained as a person can be, but I saw it spinning clockwise first 😀

The trick to switching back and forth is to focus on the shadow.
 
I consistently only see it rotate clockwise, no matter how hard I focus! Only at the very end where they mark it "counter-clockwise" do I see anti-clockwise rotation! How interesting..
 
sankondbest said:
very interesting. Does anybody know if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body (I know nothing about anatomy/neuro)?
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Pain, Touch, temperature, and any vibrations work that way too. They travel up to your spinal cord and at different points they cross over and go to the other side (contralacteral vs. ipsilateral) and go to the brain......

God i'm a nerd that i still remember this from my neurobio class....
 
JackInTheBox said:
I call shenanigans. I'm as left brained as a person can be, but I saw it spinning clockwise first 😀

The trick to switching back and forth is to focus on the shadow.
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That does not work for me...

What does work for me is to look at the picture out of the corner of my eye and convince myself that she is spinning the other way.

To get it to spin the original direction I just close my eyes for ~3 seconds and she starts spinning the original way.
 
sankondbest said:
That does not work for me...

What does work for me is to look at the picture out of the corner of my eye and convince myself that she is spinning the other way.

To get it to spin the original direction I just close my eyes for ~3 seconds and she starts spinning the original way.
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My bad, the foot of the dancer herself is easier.

More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer
 
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sankondbest said:
[youtube]9CEr2GfGilw[/youtube]
if you are right brained the dancer will spin clockwise
if you are left brained the dancer will spin counterclockwise



I am right brained (but with concentration can get the dancer to spin counterclockwise)
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I think with my head.. just not the one that most people think with, ya know
 
floja2 said:
Same here. Clockwise until I saw the counter-clockwise text. Then I go back, and I see counter-clockwise. But if I divert my attention for a little bit, it goes back to being clock-wise and stuck there.

I am left handed, so maybe that explains my dominance on right-brained-ness?
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You can't use the parts later in the video where it says "clockwise" or "counter-clockwise" because those have added visual cues to help you see one or the other. You have to use the original .gif

Spinning_Dancer.gif
 
ButImLETired said:
The eyes work that way. The left eye's field of vision is processed in the right side of the brain, and vice versa. That's why I think it might have something to do with it. Pretty cool.
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It's actually something more complicated. Your eye is divided into visual fields that are symmetrically separated at your optic chiasm. So both your eyes are controlled by the right AND the left hemispheres. It just depends on the field of view in each eye. It will help to see the dancer change direction if you pause the video and restart it, trying to visualize what you are trying to see. Another thing you can do is change the location of the video in your viewing field - transition it from one edge of your viewing field to the next and see what happens. I am curious if no vision in your eye is really a factor in the way you interpret the image. Have they even done a test on this? Let me know what happens.
 
saw it clockwise all the way. right-brained FTW... though im def more of a hybrid, i can be pretty rational despite my creativity and such, but the left-handedness must push it over the edge lol
 
ok so I looked at it again today and again only clockwise... until I focused really hard on the feet and somehow she switched! wtf is going on ahhh
 
Alright, there's some really bad information in this thread. Thank you to the person who said it doesn't matter which eye but which visual field you view an object in. If something is in your left visual field, you're going to process it in your right visual cortex and vice-versa.

I work in a cognitive neuropsych lab and we do EEG's on people in response to various stimuli. I've been a subject for pilot studies several times, and my left brain is super-dominant. Apparently it drives most of my lower-level processing.

I watched this video turn clockwise for about 5 minutes before I learned how to make it go both ways. By that logic, I should be right-brained. Regardless, this is more an exercise of perception, not brain dominance. How our visual cortex "sees" this 2d image is definitely not an indicator of hemispherical dominance which we do have, but dominance in this sense mostly determines handedness & where we process language.
 
ButImLETired said:
The eyes work that way. The left eye's field of vision is processed in the right side of the brain, and vice versa. That's why I think it might have something to do with it. Pretty cool.
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actually that is not true...

half of the nerve fibers of each eye go to each side of the brain. As a result objects that fall in the left visual field are processed on the right side of the brain.
 
and yeah this is a perception trick. It is pretty cool though.
 
Vadd0 said:
I saw it both clockwise and counterclockwise. This image is older than the internet.
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I see both, but only because I forced myself to. Then I had a headache.

But really, 5 years later and I see this pop up again?
 
Kaustikos said:
I see both, but only because I forced myself to. Then I had a headache.

But really, 5 years later and I see this pop up again?
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the easiest way to change its direction is just to focus on the bottom foot. It can be seen as moving both ways. Just focus on it and "see" it moving clockwise and as you do this move your eyes upward on the image. Use the same technique for the counter-clockwise. it's pretty easy once you get the hang of it.
 
officedepot said:
actually that is not true...

half of the nerve fibers of each eye go to each side of the brain. As a result objects that fall in the left visual field are processed on the right side of the brain.
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I apologize, that's precisely what I was trying to say but I worded it stupidly. Left eye's field of vision was supposed to mean left visual field. I was a neuroscience major, but it's been a while...😳
 
I can see both ways. focus first on the hips and then move down to the extended foot. thats how i got it.
 
Weird... the first time I watched the video I saw her turning clockwise and could not get her to turn the other way. Then I turned it off and, before turning it back on, I visualized her turning counter-clockwise. When I started the video that time, she was spinning counter-clockwise. However, I wasn't able to get her to flip between the two without stopping the video in between...

I'm left handed, if it makes any difference.
 
JuliaGulia2789 said:
Weird... the first time I watched the video I saw her turning clockwise and could not get her to turn the other way. Then I turned it off and, before turning it back on, I visualized her turning counter-clockwise. When I started the video that time, she was spinning counter-clockwise. However, I wasn't able to get her to flip between the two without stopping the video in between...

I'm left handed, if it makes any difference.
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It doesn't.
 
I actually used to be able to do this with the fan in my living room. If I put it on full speed and lay on the floor, I could eventually get it to look like it was spinning in the opposite direction in my mind.

Pretty cool stuff. 👍
 
hmm if i look at the top it looks CCW.
if i look at bottom it looks CW.
 
If you are having trouble seeing it both ways. try focusing on the edge of your computer screen. Try both the right and left edges, you will see a flicker and she will be spinning oppositely.
 
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