Re: (Fwd) cool illusion from a student

2004-03-03 Thread Brenda Smith
>While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise >circles. >Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. >Your foot will change direction and there's nothing you can do about it. I don't have an explanation, but what I discovered,

Re: (Fwd) cool illusion from a student

2004-02-29 Thread Rikikoenig
What is the explanation for the difficulty in doing these two tasks?  Anyone know?   Riki Koenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]   In a message dated 2/29/2004 11:33:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Left Brain, Right BrainWhile sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the flo

Re: (Fwd) cool illusion from a student

2004-02-29 Thread Erin A. Kennedy
I don't know if I'm more amazed at the illusion or that you have students who voluntarily send you interesting psychology-related things via email!! Erin K. >A student forwarded me this "activity" from a friend of his. I've seen it before, but I don't recall >ever having heard an explanation fo

(Fwd) cool illusion from a student

2004-02-29 Thread Jeff Bartel
A student forwarded me this "activity" from a friend of his. I've seen it before, but I don't recall ever having heard an explanation for the phenomenon. After a little experimentation (which made my dog stare at me quizzically), I verified that it's not true that "there's nothing you can do