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).
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?
Source of image: Wikipedia
More fun and challenge for your brain:
- How about trying the same kind of teaser but with photographs?
- For more visual fun with 2 images: Try this highly evolved version of the teaser.
- Visit our Top 50 Teasers…test your brain, enjoy!
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I see 15. Same ones as spdrsnake, except I can’t see any difference in the pendulum.
I see 14.
i see 17
there is nothing different about the pendelum.
i compare 14 different/replaced things
I saw 16, then used an actual stereopticon to check them.
15 differences
14
I see 16 !!
i saw 14
13 in one minute, but I’m not sure if I got one more than once. Very fun and informative post… thanks!
i see 14
15!
i found 11
i found 10
I have seen 15 differences
14! but i’m going to keep looking!
i saw 14
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
14 diffrences between these two pictures.
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.
i found 20 :) my age is 14 lol
Wheres your twenty. Some only count as one difference!!
There is a difference in the pendelum
15!!