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Test your concentration and mental self-rotation skills with this quick brainteaser

February 5, 2016 by Dr. Pascale Michelon

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What is men­tal self-rotation?

It is the cog­ni­tive skill to imag­ine your­self in dif­fer­ent loca­tions in space and to imag­ine your­self mov­ing accord­ing­ly. We need that skill in every­day activ­i­ties such as read­ing a map or find­ing our car in the park­ing lot. [Read more…] about Test your con­cen­tra­tion and men­tal self-rota­tion skills with this quick brainteaser

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: brain-teaser, brainteaser, cognitive-skill, mental-rotation, mind-teaser

Test your Brain with these Brain Teasers, Games and Illusions

May 26, 2008 by Alvaro Fernandez

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Here you can enjoy the Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games & Illu­sions that Sharp­Brains read­ers (pri­mar­i­ly adults, but younger minds too) have enjoyed the most. It is always good to learn more about our brains and to exer­cise them!.

Fun experiments on how our brains and minds work

Brain Teasers1. You think you know the col­ors? Try the Stroop Test

2. You say you can count? Check out this brief atten­tion experiment

3. Test your stress level

4. Guess: Are there more brain con­nec­tions or leaves in the Amazon?

Challenge your attention and memory

5. Quick brain teasers to flex two key men­tal muscles

6. Count the Fs in this sentence

7. Can you iden­tify Apple’s logo?

Optical illusions visual illusion of paralel lines

8. Ten clas­sic opti­cal illu­sions to trick your mind

9. What do you see?

10. Fun Men­tal Rota­tion challenge

11. What is going on with these pictures?

Language and logic puzzlesclick here for illusion test

12. Which way is the bus head­ing?

13. Where do words go?

14. Join this par­ty for polyglots

15. Fun & Brainy Haikus. Yours?

circleA few visual workouts

16. Is a cir­cle a circle?

17. Less obvi­ous than it may appear

18. How many…

Teasing your pattern recognition and thinking

19. Proverbs to exer­cise your mem­ory and reasoning

Math Brain Puzzles20. Find the miss­ing num­ber in The Emp­ty Triangle

21. Good puz­zle for the whole brain: The Blind Beggar

22. Find the the Real­ly, Real­ly, Real­ly Big Number

Brain teasers for job interviews

Brain Teaser Questions

23. Please con­sider Lin­da’s job prospects

24. A few guessti­ma­tions often used in con­sult­ing and tech interviews

25. How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers Tagged With: adults, brain teasers adults, brain-teaser, brainteaser, brainteasers

Ambiguous Visual Illusion

November 30, 2006 by Caroline Latham

What do you see?

Do you see a series of black shapes on a white back­ground, or do you see a white word on black back­ground? Try to see both, one at a time 🙂

This image is an exam­ple of an ambigu­ous illu­sion — a pic­ture or object that requires per­cep­tu­al switch­ing between the alter­na­tive inter­pre­ta­tions of fig­ure and ground. Our visu­al sys­tem sim­pli­fies visu­al scenes into a fore­ground fig­ure that we focus on and a ground which is every­thing else and forms the back­ground. And although you may be able to switch the fig­ure and ground back and forth to see one image or the oth­er, your eyes will not let you see both images at the same time. Our visu­al per­cep­tion is cre­at­ed by our brain’s inter­pre­ta­tion in the cere­bral cor­tex of visu­al infor­ma­tion enter­ing through the visu­al path­way.

The word in white let­ters is LIFT.

More brain teas­er games:

  • Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games and Illusions
  • Brain Teasers for each Cog­ni­tive Ability
  • More Mind Teasers and Games for Adults of any Age

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Filed Under: Brain Teasers, Brain/ Mental Health Tagged With: Brain Teasers, Brain-games, brain-teaser-games, brainteaser, Mind-Fitness, Mind-Games, Visual-Illusion

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Top 10 Brain Teasers and Illusions

  1. You think you know the colors? Try the Stroop Test
  2. Check out this brief attention experiment
  3. Test your stress level
  4. Guess: Are there more brain connections or leaves in the Amazon?
  5. Quick brain teasers to flex two key men­tal mus­cles
  6. Count the Fs in this sentence
  7. Can you iden­tify Apple’s logo?
  8. Ten classic optical illu­sions to trick your mind
  9. What do you see?
  10. Fun Mental Rotation challenge
  • Check our Top 25 Brain Teasers, Games and Illusions

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