Brain Teasers: Spot the Difference

Dr. Pas­cale Mich­e­lon recent­ly shared with our read­ers which brain areas and cog­ni­tive func­tions are engaged as we solve the type of brain teas­er known as Spot the Dif­fer­ence, where we have to find the dif­fer­ences between two ver­sions of one image: 

1) You have to iden­ti­fy the objects that you see: this involves your occip­i­tal lobes (in red).brain neocortex

2) You have to ana­lyzed the spa­tial rela­tion­ships between the objects that you see: this involves your occip­i­tal and pari­etal lobes (in green).

3) You have to remem­ber what you see in one pic­ture and com­pare it to what you see in the oth­er pic­ture, that is you have to use your short-term mem­o­ry: this involves your frontal (in blue) and pari­etal lobes.

4) You have to mark down the loca­tions where you see a dif­fer­ence: this involves most­ly your frontal lobes (for the movement).

Ready! Set! Go!: How many dif­fer­ences can you spot, and which ones?

spot the difference brain teaser

Source of image: Wikipedia

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83 Comments

  1. kiran on November 28, 2008 at 7:50

    i found 11 differences



  2. Seyran on December 2, 2008 at 9:11

    13!



  3. KAREA on December 5, 2008 at 11:36

    13



  4. noori on December 13, 2008 at 10:43

    17!



  5. technogal on December 18, 2008 at 5:37

    I see 12!



  6. Joe C on January 8, 2009 at 5:55

    I think you can debate what is actu­al­ly a dif­fer­ence or maybe just a fainter bit of colour as each one does not have every­thing per­fect­ly identical…



  7. JONES MILER on January 17, 2009 at 12:45

    WHAT’S THE ANSWER?



  8. Thea on January 19, 2009 at 2:01

    I got 15



  9. leika on January 28, 2009 at 4:46

    i c 12!



  10. leika on January 28, 2009 at 4:47

    no wait.…. i c 13 now



  11. leika on January 28, 2009 at 4:48

    my bad.…i c 15 now! lol



  12. Steve on February 4, 2009 at 1:03

    There are 15 dif­fer­ences. I loaded both images into Pho­to­shop on two lay­ers. I used the dif­fer­ence fil­ter and fif­teen, and only fif­teen dif­fer­ences were spot­ted. If there real­ly are any more dif­fer­ences then they are so slight that the author is being a douche.



  13. Asterix on February 10, 2009 at 5:01

    15. No doubt about it! Any one claim­ing more than that, will believe noth­ing is more than zero.



  14. Christen on February 12, 2009 at 6:47

    I found 17
    x



  15. Leea on February 13, 2009 at 7:30

    i see only 12 can’t find more than that!!



  16. maya on February 23, 2009 at 11:28

    i found like a ton i think i found like 15 or maybe 16 i dont know any­more. they were hard to find at first but then it got super easy!!!!
    so yeahh:]



  17. rach on February 23, 2009 at 11:30

    i found 18!



  18. bob on February 27, 2009 at 3:30

    25



  19. ja on March 1, 2009 at 11:39

    i see 14



  20. adam on March 3, 2009 at 1:47

    i see 15

    cake icing
    tongue
    grannies collar
    clock hands
    peo­ple on shelf
    plate face
    flower missing
    cat with lollypop
    sock
    banana
    heart knobs
    hair pin
    cur­tain width
    cook­ie on tray
    moun­tains picture
    there is no dif­fer­ence in the pen­du­lum or pots. green lines dont count, there is 15!



  21. aliel on March 8, 2009 at 12:47

    i saw all of it! i’ve seen about 30



  22. alan on March 12, 2009 at 12:46

    I saw 14 differences



  23. ahmd on March 13, 2009 at 11:47

    16 no doubt about it



  24. abcoco on March 15, 2009 at 4:31

    15.…. i think



  25. kori27nne on March 23, 2009 at 8:52

    I see 16… Can’t wait for your final answer, Alvaro.



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