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This was fun and fooling people was obvious but really the animation has 2 perspectives.....

Posted by: Joey Chen of 6:36pm today

This article is misleading. Few brain scientists subscribe to strict theories of lateralization because, like this article, they're too simple, failing to grasp the brain's full complexities. Most experts in the field agree that people rely on both sides of the brain for cognitive and perceptual processing. While the brain has certain genetic "predispositions," with different areas more likely to perform certain pre-ordained functions, it is also highly plastic, able to adapt to differences in environment and stimulation. This means that no brain looks or behaves exactly like any other, and that, while one side of each individual's brain may do one task more than the other, which side this is differs from person to person, so it's impossible to say universally, "The left side is for logic, etc." Meaning, you may be a very logical, math-minded person, but be more strongly right-brained, and to diagnose this based on a picture of a spinning woman is ridiculous. Presenting this information without any data or greater interpretation means that the picture as it¿s painted here is grossly incomplete.

Posted by: Leah Kaminsky of Seattle 1:42pm January 05, 2009

Yes, I do¿both clockwise and counter-clockwise¿while concentrating on her left foot. It has nothing to do with focus or peripheral vision, and I cannot make it switch at will.

Posted by: Bill C. of Tucson, AZ 4:00pm December 27, 2008

Using your peripheral vision you can make the figure turn to the right or the left. I can see it turning in both direction. I can make it 'switch' at will. I thought for a moment that it was the frequency at which the image was being display but it is not.

Posted by: Aland R of Miami, Florida 7:42am December 25, 2008

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