Saturday, May 24, 2008

My Brain is Right to be Left

This cool test is from the PerthNow news site Down Under...

Evidently, most people see the woman turning counter-clockwise. Not me. Through my prism she’s spinning in time, an indication I’m Right-Brain dominant.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

sequential
mathematics: perception of counting/measurement

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

simultaneous
mathematics: perception of shapes/motions


I see traits on both sides of the ledger, but right rules. The last two italicized entries came from Wikipedia and brought me back to high school. There I struggled to get B’s in Algebra, but easily aced Geometry while most of my peers struggled. That provides a sliver of evidence to the claim that only 5% of right handed people are also right-brain dominant.

But what does it all mean, Basil? I have no idea, but it gave me an excuse to post a hot spinning naked chick. Blame it on my “fantasy based” right brain.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ha, that was cute. Ur fantasy based right brain. I like that. I see her the same way you do, only with out the whole fantasy thing.

_Megan

10:42 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In the ‘for what it’s worth category’ http://scienceline.org/2007/10/29/ask-hsu-spinning-girl-right-left-brain-hemispheres/ -looked it up when I first saw this since I see the image turn both ways.

11:53 AM  
Blogger fifteenkey said...

Yeah, as I was thinking about it, horoscopes and fortune cookies came to mind...

12:46 PM  

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