Thursday, October 11, 2007

Are you right brained or left brained?


This is pretty weird... Check out http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html

What side is your brain power on? I was easily able to switch the image back and forth, with a little concentration, so I wonder what that means (although the picture definitely rotated more clockwise than not). You mileage might vary.


Basically, the direction that you see the dancer moving in below is supposed to identify which side of the brain you use most (clockwise movement = you use the right side more, counter-clockwise = left side). Check out the article above for more detailed information...

For those of you who are, have, or might take Dr. Jablokow's Problem Solving classes (SYSEN 550. 552, 554), I wonder how the side of your brain function, based on this picture, if it's at all accurate, relates to your cognitive style (adaptive vs. innovative). I only ask this because I'm kind of in the middle according to KAI, and I felt like I was very easily able to change the direction of the dancer... Anyone more toward the extremes that might try this out, unscientifically, of course?

2 comments:

Bobbi said...

Jim,

I thought this was very interesting, so I asked both my husband and son to tell me which way the dancer was moving. My son took a look at it and said, oh she just changed direction! My husband who is active on a message board told me that somewhere around 40 turns, she changes direction. Of course I needed to verify his statement, and low and behold, he was correct.

Like you, I score somewhere around the middle of the KAI. Interesting point you bring up about correlations between cognitive style and influence of which side of the brain function is dominant.

Bobbi

Anonymous said...

I was listening to music when I looked at the picture - the direction was clockwise. I tried to change the direction by trying to do some maths in my mind but nothing happen. I guess I have to put my full concentration then. I'll try again later.