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> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:50:38 -0600
> From: Jeff Courtman <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Turning woman - optical illusion
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> Like the one posted a few months ago where the b&w picture suddenly
> became color - this one has me stumped.....any answers?
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> http://tinyurl.com/33va3f
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> Just because it is described as a left/right brain artifact, knowing
> that does nothing to help me understand why!
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Hi Jeff,
The spinning dancer has nothing to do with right-brain versus left-
brain processing, but with a reversible/ambivalent optical illusion
due to lack of depth cues. Read the excellent NY Times article called
"The truth about the spinning dancer" at:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/the-truth-about-the-spinning-
dancer/?hp
Diana Issidorides
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