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?

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Source of image: Wikipedia

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83 Comments

  1. KSB on August 15, 2008 at 8:38

    I see 15. Same ones as spdrsnake, except I can’t see any dif­fer­ence in the pendulum.



  2. Michael S. on August 15, 2008 at 10:18

    I see 14.



  3. luis a. on August 15, 2008 at 12:29

    i see 17



  4. dee on August 15, 2008 at 2:24

    there is noth­ing dif­fer­ent about the pendelum.



  5. dee on August 15, 2008 at 2:35

    i com­pare 14 different/replaced things



  6. steve on August 16, 2008 at 10:00

    I saw 16, then used an actu­al stere­op­ti­con to check them.



  7. Suzane on August 16, 2008 at 6:43

    15 dif­fer­ences



  8. anita on August 17, 2008 at 10:04

    14



  9. Judith on August 18, 2008 at 1:08

    I see 16 !!



  10. brandon on August 21, 2008 at 9:10

    i saw 14



  11. Denise's Parenting Teens Blog on September 4, 2008 at 10:41

    13 in one minute, but I’m not sure if I got one more than once. Very fun and infor­ma­tive post… thanks!



  12. andrea on September 11, 2008 at 3:11

    i see 14



  13. lade on September 11, 2008 at 4:06

    15!



  14. Sakshi jain on September 16, 2008 at 1:10

    i found 11



  15. Sakshi jain on September 16, 2008 at 1:10

    i found 10



  16. manoj on September 16, 2008 at 2:54

    I have seen 15 differences



  17. Julie on September 21, 2008 at 9:14

    14! but i’m going to keep looking!



  18. hides on September 28, 2008 at 4:13

    i saw 14



  19. ag on October 11, 2008 at 1:45

    Cur­tain (top ruffle)
    Clock (time is different)
    Green Pic­ture (dif­fer­ent mtn. shape)
    Dif­fer­ent shape knobs on cup­board (round/heart shaped)
    Two lit­tle boy orna­ments in cupboard
    Blue bowl is replaced with two lit­tle boy ornaments
    White plate has a smi­ley face
    Cat is hold­ing a lollipop
    Cat is hold­ing a spoon
    Fish is miss­ing on top of green icing
    Dif­fer­ent shaped cookie
    Banana missing
    Icing on bot­tom of cake is different
    Hair pin miss­ing on woman
    Col­lar is dif­fer­ent on woman
    Sock is miss­ing on child
    Tongue on child is out
    Green line to the left of the draw­ing is dif­fer­ent width



  20. Lambodar Prasad Dash on October 19, 2008 at 10:30

    14 diffrences between these two pictures.



  21. deezy on October 23, 2008 at 11:19

    thas crazy when you cross your eyes you real­ly do see all the differences…i seen three more when i crossed my eyes and got the thitrd pic­ture in there.



  22. Junior :) on November 5, 2008 at 5:48

    i found 20 :) my age is 14 lol



  23. serious on November 19, 2008 at 2:26

    Wheres your twen­ty. Some only count as one difference!!



  24. Andrea on November 23, 2008 at 7:27

    There is a dif­fer­ence in the pendelum



  25. Nathalie on November 25, 2008 at 5:45

    15!!



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