--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], cardemaister <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511- 5005375,00.html > > > > > > 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. > > > > I saw her turning counter-clockwise to start with, > > but it was easy to reverse the direction. > > This is really interesting. When I first looked at it, it was > clockwise. Then after I had read the writing on the left and looked > back, it switched. This happened a few times. First clockwise then > after reading, the switch. I guess reading kicks in the left brain.
That *is* interesting. You'd see it clockwise first, I'd guess, because you're a musician and use your right brain more. Can you make it switch at will, without looking away? I can, but only at certain points, when the lifted leg is parallel to the plane of the screen. I can make her go back and forth in half-circles without ever swinging the leg behind her. I don't know if making her switch means shifting sides of the brain, or if it's just something the left brain figures out how to do. Be interesting to have an MRI or something done, see if the side of the brain actually does switch. It doesn't really feel like "focusing." It's almost more kinesthetic, as if I were the one swinging the leg.
