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Left-Right

Look at the chart below and say the COLOR not the word.

YELLOW   ORANGE   BLUE

BLACK   GREEN   RED

YELLOW   PURPLE   RED

ORANGE   GREEN   YELLOW

Left-Right conflict

Your right brain tries to say the color, but your left brain insists on reading the word.

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3 Responses to “Left-Right”

  1. Andrea
    December 9th, 2007 19:56
    1

    Ah yes, the stroop test. Other interesting factoids. The Stroop test activates a part of the brain called the anterior cingulate (ACC). This region is activated when you have to inhibit a particular response, during physical pain, and under the tension of social strain/separation. So you should do worse on this task if you just broke up with your boyfriend because the brain region activated (the back of the ACC, IIRC) will inhibit the front of it which is what you need to do this task.

    Random factoid for the day.

  2. mlnewell
    December 10th, 2007 01:20
    2

    Andrea I was hoping you might comment! :) I’m gonna have to try the Stroop test next time I smash I thumb in the door and see if it is more difficult.

  3. Tomislav o'Foleyovanovic
    December 11th, 2007 00:34
    3

    very interesting, this gave me a headache… how does this inform us about undrstanding behaviour and/or understanding?

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