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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 (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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    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. Leea says:

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

    12. 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:]

    13. rach says:

      i found 18!

    14. ja says:

      i see 14

    15. 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!

    16. aliel says:

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

    17. alan says:

      I saw 14 differences

    18. ahmd says:

      16 no doubt about it

    19. abcoco says:

      15.…. i think

    20. kori27nne says:

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

    21. Jay says:

      15 dif­fer­ences… what’s the answer?

    22. megan says:

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

    23. Lee says:

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

    24. joann says:

      i found 20 dif­fer­ences :)

    25. 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

    26. monkey n moose says:

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

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