And now for something completely different...

[byslantedlight]

If you cross your index and middle fingers (as if crossing your fingers for luck), and then touch your nose (move your fingers up and down the bridge of your nose, making sure that both are in contact with your nose), how many noses do you feel you have?

(The reason I'm curious in this Nature article... *g*)

Comments

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Without cheating and looking at your link - one nose with index finger under middle finger, and two noses (and a smutty mark on my glasses) with the index finger over the middle finger. Or possibly I've grown another nose...

ETA that's such an interesting article - thank you!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Ooh, ooh ooh! I didn't think of trying it with my fingers the other way around! Having experimented further (*g*) I still only feel one nose when I do it with my right hand, no matter which way around my fingers are, but doing it with my left hand I felt two noses!

Isn't it interesting! It's one of those articles that completely make me wish I'd studied something completely different at uni! *g*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

LOL - so that's two of us getting funny looks from everyone then *g*

I wonder why handedness comes into it? Fascinating! I love anything to do with the brain - Oliver Sacks is one of my favourite writers. *g*

I'll be poking my nose the rest of the day now...

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

that's interesting - I can only properly cross my fingers one way (middle over index) so I didn't occur to me to experiment. Are you a concert pianist, on the quiet?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee - I struggled to do that too! Mind you, I also struggled to touch my nose with both the fingers I had crossed... *headdesk*

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Only 'Chopsticks' *g*

Can you not cross them that way? I have to cross them by using the other hand for my right hand, but my left will easily cross in both directions... and now you're getting funny looks too *hg*

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

now you're getting funny looks too only from the cat, but that's normal

[constant-muse.livejournal.com]

one, but I can sort of get the feeling of a second, with my left fingers.

and squee! I've come across Henrik Ehrsson and his research before. He seems so charming and enthusiastic (and a bit good looking *g*) and doing this exciting, original work. His article appearing in Nature is fab indeed.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Squee indeed - he is a bit cool, isn't he! I've not come across his work until now, though I feel like I ought to have! And yeah, just a bit good-looking... *g*

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I can't cross them the other way wsith either hand, even if i yank them around. I can't feel two noses, either.
rushes off to read article*

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

Very interesting topic. Thanks for the link! :-)