Right Brain vs Left Brain

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I see it clockwise most of the time :-/

it's the spinning lady again!!

I see it clockwise...I seriously thought (in previous spinning lady threads) that she REALLY at random would start spinning the other direction

Clockwise.

And what is the explanation?

After I flip/mirror the image-frames the rotation is counter-clockwise.

I see it clockwise most of the time, but sometimes counter-clockwise.

I've seen it before, and know what happens, but it's still confusing to look at.

I just had my entire family try this test. The results:

Dad = counterclockwise, no switching

Mom = counterclockwise, no switching

Grandma: clockwise, no switching

Grandpa = constant switching, no full rotations

Brother and I = many switches with full rotations, however when I see her turning counterclockwise, he sees her turning clockwise, etc; plus the times we see her switch rarely coincide.

That was a very pleasant twenty minutes spent. XD Although . .. . what would you say it means when you see her spinning both directions equally? No-side dominant? Both dominant? Meh, I should have expected this since I use my left hand and right hand pretty much interchangeably - although I do have slightly better control of my left.

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I see it clockwise, no reversing. Odd, because I use words and logic. I guess I do it from the right side. I am a visual/spatial oriented person.

My NT left-handed daughter, the youngest, also sees the lady turning right.

Great Visual, Lepetitprince.

THE SPINNING LADY IS DRIVING ME CRAZY

She switches to counter clockwise when i view her with periphrial vision through my right eye (can hardly see out of my left) and switches back to clockwise when i view her directly

I can get her to spin counter clockwise for several seconds before she switches back...with practice....

I am left-handed...left eye dominant....initially without concentrating she is always clockwise....

I still swear that the image switches though.....

If I try to force the lady to go counter clockwise sometimes, then she will do the confusing no full turn before switvhing thing......it still drives me crazy.......my brain hemispheres are at war with each other.

I don't even have to force it - she just switches like crazy. Sometimes she gets all the way around anywhere from one to a few dozen times, and sometimes she barely gets halfway before she switches. Forcing it doesn't really work with me either - she switches to counterclockwise more when I'm relaxed and not thinking about anything in particular.

My grandpa has yet to see her make a full circle - to him she's just swinging her leg back and forth . .. . I wonder why?

try this experiment...get two spinning ladies up on the screen at the same time and then see what happens....

I can't see how she could be viewed as going any other direction besides clockwise...

I look at the foot and it is clearly only going clockwise... as well as her face. I just don't know how a person could see her spinning counterclockwise... it looks like that would be impossible. sorry, but that's my opinion on this... I just don't see it..

It has something to do with your percepption, but trust me you can see her both ways - probably only if you're not dominant in one hemisphere over the other, though. My parents both see her going counterclockwise and can't see how my brother and I could see her spinning any other direction.

All it means if you don't see her spinning any other way is that you're solidly right-brain dominate. ^^ And there's nothing wrong with that.

Well... I believe you, but honestly.. I just don't see it at all. So, when your family is all looking at the same screen at the same time, some of you see her spinning the opposite direction? I just can't see that at all.. ha! amazing..

I'm considered to be on the autistic spectrum with NLD or PDD-NOS. Supposedly my neurological problems resemble something that used to be called "right hemisphere brain dysfunction" or something like that... I read somewhere that the developing right brain is more susceptible to damage from lack of oxygen than the left... but they don't know what causes it.. It could be hereditary too.. I'm apparently extremely right-brained and if something is, in fact, damaged in my right brain, then that would explain alot of my troubles... Maybe I could learn to be more left brained?? but I can't for the life of me see the dancer turning counterclockwise.

As far as the examples given for right brained and left-brained people... I am a combination of both.. some things on the left side I am good at and not so good at, and some things on the right I am both good and and not so good at... I DO know that my Right Eye is dominant.. I was told that most people are dominant in their right eye (which is controlled by the left brain if I'm not mistaken?) I wonder if a person is right-brained, should they be left-handed?

According to this test, I am right-brained, but I do know that am also right-handed and right eye dominant.. (The test for eye dominance is done by first making a triangle shape out of your two hands with the index fingers and thumbs. Keeping the fingers shaped like a triangle close to your face, position an object in the distance right in the middle of the triangle... Slowly extend out the triangle by extending out your arms. When you can't extend your hands any more, close each eye.. Whichever eye is left solely looking at the object in the middle of the triangle is the "dominant" eye)

All this stuff is really interesting to me. I like reading articles about different brains, and this type of phenomenon. (I just can't see it though. I just can't see the dancer going any other way but clockwise at all! )