A Bit Of Random Fun And Brain Strain... The Stroop Test, colours and words and language... Options

[janexxx]

Just wondering of left brain vs right brain thinking is a factor and it helps if you close one eye (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[YetAnotherPianist]

Just wondering of left brain vs right brain thinking is a factor and it helps if you close one eye (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Reminds me of a fascinating experiment I heard about a few weeks ago....

A man had some sort of brain damage that interrupted communications between the two sides of his brain. He was shown two pictures, one to each eye, and asked to choose a matching picture associated with each of those.

His right eye was shown a picture of a chicken, and asked to choose a related item from a chicken shed, and a few unrelated items; he chose the chicken shed, as one would expect.

His left eye was shown a picture of a snowy driveway with a car on it, and he was asked to choose a related from a shoven and a few other things; he chose the shovel, as one would expect.

However, with his two eyes firmly fixed on the original pictures, he was asked to explain why he had chosen the chicken shed and the shovel. His response?

'Oh, that's easy. You need a chicken shed to keep the chicken in, and a shovel to clean it up afterwards'.

The part of the brain that sought to rationalise his actions could only 'see' what his right eye was shown, so it rationalised his decisions with reference to that. Interestingly, this sort of thing happens a lot - people seek to rationalise and explain their actions, thoroughly beliving their explanations to themselves no matter how wrong they may actually be....

[andante_in_c]

I thought that since you were trying to say the colours and not the words, it would be easier in upper case? As the words would be less recognisable...? Whereas if you were trying to say the words, it would be easier in lower case because the shapes of the words would help, and it would be easier to ignore the colours.

Unless I am completely confused, which is entirely possible.

I am a twit. I always seem to remember it the wrong way round. Sorry! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[sarah-flute]

katyjay, I guess without perfect pitch it's possible to treat the Ds, Bs, etc as meaningless syllables too. It's probably a good deal harder with perfect pitch actually.

YAP: I'm used to singing using relative pitch, and I have no problem singing the letter C to the note D - without perfect pitch, as far as my brain is concerned I'm just singing the notes in relation to each other, and I'm looking at the shape they make on the staff and how they relate to each other rather than trying to sing the actual notes, if you see what I mean. I guess for someone with perfect pitch it's the nearest you'll come to singing with only relative pitch??!

Andante: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) it probably says something about my confidence in what I am talking about that I assumed it probably was me being confused not you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

Pars: thanks for that online one, that was cool (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[maggiemay]

Fascinating - I found the sight-reading much easier than the words / colours.

[Boo Radley]

I did the online one and my incongruent time was quicker than my congruent time. I always get different results to everyone else on pyschological tests.

[sarah-flute]

Fascinating - I found the sight-reading much easier than the words / colours.

Me too.

Boo: that's very unusual (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Did you find it easy to read out the printed colours in the one I made up?