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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 the brain(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?

Brain Teasers: Spot the difference

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83 Responses

  1. kiran says:

    i found 11 differences

  2. Seyran says:

    13!

  3. 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…

  4. JONES MILER says:

    WHAT’S THE ANSWER?

  5. Thea says:

    I got 15

  6. leika says:

    i c 12!

  7. leika says:

    no wait….. i c 13 now

  8. leika says:

    my bad….i c 15 now! lol

  9. 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.

  10. Asterix says:

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

  11. Christen says:

    I found 17
    x

  12. Leea says:

    i see only 12 can’t find more than that!!

  13. 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:]

  14. rach says:

    i found 18!

  15. ja says:

    i see 14

  16. 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!

  17. aliel says:

    i saw all of it! i’ve seen about 30

  18. alan says:

    I saw 14 differences

  19. ahmd says:

    16 no doubt about it

  20. abcoco says:

    15….. i think

  21. kori27nne says:

    I see 16… Can’t wait for your final answer, Alvaro.

  22. Jay says:

    15 differences… what’s the answer?

  23. megan says:

    i found 15 differences oh yeh !!!!! =D

  24. Lee says:

    i have found 25 (thats no a lite, look for smaller things and be patient :)

  25. joann says:

    i found 20 differences :)

  26. Dzadz says:

    Want to really notice something cool – cross your eyes so the two images merge (they will since they’re close to identical) then scan through it and you will notice where the differences are because wherever there is a change it will seem kind of not natural

  27. monkey n moose says:

    yo we only found 15…CUS THERES ONLY 15 OF EM!!! peace lol

  28. Mochi says:

    15

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