Your Brain Controls Your Foot Without Thinking | Try This Weird Trick

Your Brain Controls Your Foot Without Thinking | Try This Weird Trick How smart is your right foot? Why does your foot change direction when you draw the number 6? Hey, welcome back to Kids Fun Science! Today, we present an intriguing science experiment that explores the fascinating quirks of our nervous system. Discover a fun trick involving coordination as we try to draw the number six and observe surprising results, making this a perfect science for kids activity. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:10 What you need 0:12 Set up 0:35 The experiment 1:53 Science behind this experiment Kids Fun Science Online Store https://teespring.com/stores/kids-fun-science Try this… 1) Sit in a chair 2) Lift your right foot a few inches from the floor and then begin to move it in a clockwise direction. 3) While you’re doing this, use your right index finger to draw a number 6 in the air. Your foot will turn in an anti-clockwise direction and there’s nothing you can do about it! What’s happening? The left side of your brain, which controls the right side of your body, is responsible for rhythm and timing. The left side of your brain cannot deal with operating two opposite movements at the same time and so it combines them into a single motion. Try this with your right foot and left hand and you should have no problem! I read this and it did not work for me. THIS effect is partly due to the normal difference in height between hand and foot. That difference, in conjunction with gravity and the earth’s rotation, is enough to affect the body’s highly sensitive limb rotation mechanisms. If you eliminate this difference (for instance, by lying down and holding your right leg and arm at about the same height),your right foot will be unaffected. However, if you reverse this height difference (for instance, by positioning your right leg above your head and your right hand nearer the floor), the effect will be even more marked.This is probably because, with this posture, your head is in a silly position too.