Brain Teasers: Spot the Difference

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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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  6. Joe C says

    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…

  12. Steve says

    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 says

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

  16. maya says

    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:]

  20. adam says

    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!