Finding the Difference

How many dif­fer­ences can you spot?

You have seen and maybe tried that exer­cise or game in the Sun­day paper many times: find 5 dif­fer­ences between the two images.

You may like it or not. You may think it is only for kids. But it is a GREAT brain exercise!

Let’s see what cog­ni­tive processes and which brain areas are involved in this exercise:

- You have to iden­tify the objects that you see: this involves your occip­i­tal lobes (in red, below)
– You have to ana­lyzed the spa­tial rela­tion­ships between the objects that you see: this involves your occip­i­tal and pari­etal (in green) lobes
– 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
– You have to mark down the loca­tions where you see a dif­fer­ence: this involves mostly your frontal lobes (for the movement)

Did you real­ize that so much was going on in your brain dur­ing that seem­ingly sim­ple exercise?


Try these sites for finding the difference games:


Detailed Photos (Medium): http://www.spotthedifference.com/photogame.asp