Optical illusion, kids vs adults

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Here's one that kids are supposed to see differently than adults. Can anyone with one of those (kids) around verify?

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[+6] - boomerang - 08/21/2008Well waddaya know. I might have to go drag Mo out of bed to answer your question. <dophins, dolphins, please say dolphins> Interesting picture.
[+6] - boomerang - 08/22/2008Mo saw "two people playing in a puddle of water inside a jar. What a stupid picture. Can I watch cartoons now?"
[+6] - Shapeless - 08/22/2008I recall coming across a similar "optical illusion test" as a kid: [img]http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/psyche/optical/11.jpg[/img] The book I saw this in said that young folks will...
[+4] - Robert Gentel - 08/21/200813 is probably too old, but I wonder at what age kids would really only see the dolphins.
[+3] - hingehead - 08/21/2008I don't have a kid to prove it but I'd say this is fair dinkum. When there is insufficient information the brain plays pattern matching with the visual input, trying to guess what it's looking...
[+3] - littlek - 08/21/2008no matter what I try, I see NO dolphins.
[+3] - CalamityJane - 08/21/2008[quote="hingehead"]PS I don't think anyone will take up the experiment and actually show a child suggestive images. Maybe. [/quote] Well, think again! I just showed it to my almost...
[+3] - wandeljw - 08/22/2008[quote]Mo saw "two people playing in a puddle of water inside a jar. What a stupid picture. Can I watch cartoons now?"[/quote][b]The community has voted this as the best answer.[/b]...
[+3] - Robert Gentel - 08/22/2008[quote="boomerang"] I recall something from an art theory class that said people will always try to organize unknown images into human shapes first since the body is the most...
[+3] - DrewDad - 08/22/2008Yaya, nearly five, said "ballerinas jumping." Keetah, three, said "a jar" and "a woman."

@Robert Gentel,

Well waddaya know.

I might have to go drag Mo out of bed to answer your question.

<dophins, dolphins, please say dolphins>

Interesting picture.

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I don't have a kid to prove it but I'd say this is fair dinkum.

When there is insufficient information the brain plays pattern matching with the visual input, trying to guess what it's looking at. If a child had not had prior experience of the visual (probably rare in this day and age) I can see why the pattern wouldn't register.

PS I don't think anyone will take up the experiment and actually show a child suggestive images. Maybe.

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@Robert Gentel,

I see dead people.

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@Robert Gentel,

no matter what I try, I see NO dolphins.

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@Robert Gentel,

I see 8 dolphins, one of them is just a fin though and blends with the dark background. But I only saw them when I knew they were in there.

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@dagmaraka,

Really? Where? Does the dolphin version include the bottle or no?

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@hingehead,

hingehead wrote:

PS I don't think anyone will take up the experiment and actually show a child suggestive images. Maybe.

I thought that some people might think that way, but then again there are some pretty smart moms around here who might get that it can't suggest what the child hasn't already seen.

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@boomerang,

boomerang wrote:

Well waddaya know.

I might have to go drag Mo out of bed to answer your question.

<dophins, dolphins, please say dolphins>

Interesting picture.

What Mo is going to tell you, is that if it's supposed to be a bat, it should go like this, not like that.

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@littlek,

I can see the nine.

They are around the bodies...

Eg...look in the black spaces defining the woman's arms......there be dolphins!

There are 2 more defining the man's arms around the woamn...and one defining the bottom of her left breast.

There is one 1..(tail)... defining her pubic area, and this one continues and is also the shadow defining her R inner thigh...and so on.

There's a little cutie where their foreheads are.

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@Borat Sister,

Ok, I am supposed to be good at negative space. I see vaguely dolphin-shaped smudges.

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@littlek,

Oh...mote it be your computer making them a bit more smudged than mine?

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@Borat Sister,

More like my brain making them smudgy. I see 8.

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@littlek,

I am fascinated now for some damn reason...I want you to see them all...ALL of them, dammit!

Laughing

Which one aren't you seeing?

Are you seeing the little one whose tail is the woman's eye?

Now I can see that one has a fish in its mouth.

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@hingehead,

hingehead wrote:

PS I don't think anyone will take up the experiment and actually show a child suggestive images. Maybe.

Well, think again! I just showed it to my almost 13 year old, and she immediately saw the couple, but a few seconds later pointed out the dolphins too. So phew, her sexual memory isn't that prominent yet.

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@CalamityJane,

13 is probably too old, but I wonder at what age kids would really only see the dolphins.

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@Borat Sister,

The one in the mouth was the one I was missing - Thank you!

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@Robert Gentel,

Well, there's plenty of kids here....but I amn't gonna risk showing them the picture!

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