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Here’s something fun. I don’t know how many of you went to “The Discovery Zone” in Charlotte back in the late ’80s but they had a big section of one wall dedicated to text that said one color’s name in a different color. This ostensibly tests whether one is predominantly left- or right-brained, though of course it is, as Ashcraft (2002) puts it, a “convenient fiction” to say that any person is truly one or the other. There’s a web-version online (in Many places) … here’s one:
http://www.bertc.com/colours.htm#x

References:

• Ashcraft, M. H. (2002). Cognition, 3rd. ed.. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Here’s something fun. I don’t know how many of you went to “The Discovery Zone” in Charlotte back in the late ’80s but they had a big section of one wall dedicated to text that said one color’s name in a different color. This ostensibly tests whether one is predominantly left- or right-brained, though of course it is, as Ashcraft (2002) puts it, a “convenient fiction” to say that any person is truly one or the other. There’s a web-version online (in Many places) … here’s one:
http://www.bertc.com/colours.htm#x

References:

• Ashcraft, M. H. (2002). Cognition, 3rd. ed.. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.