Oct 28, 2006
Visual Illusion Brain Teaser
By: Caroline Latham
What do you see?
Keep looking at it …
Hint:
You should be able to perceive two different images.
Brain Science:
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. And although you may be able to switch back and forth to see one image or the other, your eyes will not let you see both 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. And sometimes our minds get too involved in interpreting the perceptual input, rather than passively recording it, and make mistakes, otherwise known as “optical illusions”.
Answer:
An Indian Chief or an Eskimo
Links:
Optical illusion definition
Optical illusions primer
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PLs i don’t see anything else but a person’s side profile
Hello Jazz: try seeing the eskimo figure. A human figure in a white coat walking towards the right. In this view, what you see as the ear of that face is the right hand/ arm of the eskimo. What you see as the mouth is a little folding in the back of the eskimo’s white coat. Better?
I don’t see ANYPLACE here that says “continue reading”.…and it seems a lot of these say you can find and answer and there isn’t one. the one that asks you to find which shape fits says get the answer in “comment”…and nothing is there, you don’t get an answer if you post a comment either
Hello Ray: it says the answer is An Indian Chief or an Eskimo. In my previous comment I help see both options.
Will review other teasers to make sure the answers appear. Thanks
“And although you may be able to switch back and forth to see one image or the other, your eyes will not let you see both at the same time.”
That statement is false. I instantly saw both images and I have no trouble seeing both of them at the same time.
Lyle: you may have a more evolved brain than most of us…
eskimo and indian
im the same as lyle…i instantly saw two images and have no trouble seeing both at the same time
I see an eskimo and the head of an indian.
I can also see both at the same time =D It’s so cool, I never tried that before. Well miss, Lyle, and I all see them both at the same time, maybe it’s more common
i see an eskimo and n indian
I see one indian and one eskimo that he is looking to find something
I also saw the indian and the eskimo together immediately. In fact, I have to concentrate to see only one or the other. I don’t know if there’s any relationship, but I’m also good with audio/visual pallindrome recognition.
Wow, i only saw the indian and could NOT for the life of me find the other picture. EVen when they told me what it was it took me a while and i have to STRAIN to see it. I guess that i just have a one track mind!
i see an eskimo man..haha