RESEARCHERS have claimed that they are able to tell whether you’re right or left brained just by the way you see this dancer spinning.
In fact, experts argue that the optical illusion can actually reveal how smart an individual is based on the brain’s visual perception.
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This optical illusion claimed to be able to tell the way your brain workedCredit: YouTube/Luis Delgado
The dancer’s direction will undoubtedly divide opinion as some people will see her spinning clockwise while others will see her turning anti-clockwise and some will see both.
But 13 years since it was released, experts say the illusion isn’t about the brain hemisphere but instead reveal most people will see her rotating clockwise.
This is because we tend to have a viewpoint from above and an attention bias towards the right side of the body.
It was originally created in 2003 by the Japanese Flash designer Nobuyuki Kayahara and for many years it did determine which side of the brain people used.
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It was created in 2003 by Japanese Flash designer Nobuyuki Kayahara and for years it determined if you used the right or left side of you brainCredit: YouTube/Luis Delgado
According to the video, people who see her spinning clockwise are using their right brain meaning they see the bigger picture, they’re philosophical and spiritual, think outside of the box, are imaginative and take risks.
However, if you see her spinning anti-clockwise you’re logical, detail and fact oriented, mathematical and scientific and strategic, while people who see both are supposedly very intelligent with high IQs.
But Paul Spencer with Tonic contacted Arthur Shapiro and Niko Troje, a pair of scientists who explain Kayahara’s spinning girl in the forthcoming Oxford Compendium of Visual Illusions.
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How experts have now claimed the illusion isn’t able to test that and the theory is ‘gibberish’Credit: YouTube/Luis Delgado
“That’s just gibberish,” Arthur Shapiro, a computer science professor at American University in Washington D.C. and creator of the color wagon wheel illusion, told Paul.
The scientists explain that the ballerina is deemed a reversible image, which means that even though she rotates, she shows “similarities to other static illusions”.
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According to them, the illusion is fairly common and it’s called a reversible imageCredit: YouTube/Luis Delgado
Niko Troje, a director for BioMotion Lab at Queens University, goes on to say these types of images can change in an instant because they can be viewed in two different ways.
This is because the image doesn’t reveal any clues about the image’s depth, which usually help us figure it out, so when it’s not immediately clear, our brain takes the initiative to fill the void.
Categories: Optical Illusion
Source: HIS Education