Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Boo-Boo Key-Key test



Above are two alphabets of a martian language spoken on a far away planet. One of them is pronounced Boo-Boo (similar to pronouncing Boo-Hoo). The other is pronounced as key-key (with an emphasis on the 'k'). Now you have to decide which of the above image is going to be key-key and which one is going to be boo-boo.

Try it out and lets see what you think.

Note: The two martian alphabets are those to the top left and top right of the rectangle.

Once you have made up your mind, look for the answer in comments.

4 comments:

Chica, Cienna, and Cali said...

the first one is boo-boo and the second one is key-key....unless this is a trick question where no matter what you answer, it will be a wrong answer :DDD

yes, I am confident I am correct.......I have a special connexion with Martians ;DDD

Sarad said...

this test was put up by a neurologist Dr V.S Ramachandran during one of his talks at IMSc., Chennai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilayanur_S._Ramachandran

The image on the left is expected to be Boo-boo because of its relatively flatness in pronouncing boo-boo. the image on the right is expected to be key-key because of sharpness and stress in its pronunciation.

its a test to indicate that human brains ability to abstract information and make inferences from available data.

Jas B said...

Wow, thats pretty neat! Needless to say I got it all wrong! :D

Sarad said...

maybe it should have been actually pronounced for you. it would have been clearer.