MY WIFE AND MOTHER-IN-LAW

What you see may depend on your life experiences.

This image appeared on a German postcard as early as 1888.

If you look closely enough, you can usually see both figures—a young woman and an old woman. But you can see only one at a time. The brain locks into one interpretation and can’t see the other at the same time.1,2

ASK YOURSELF:
Can you imagine a situation in your pharmacy in which locking on to one image, instead of another, could lead to problems?

1 YOUNG GIRL-OLD WOMAN ILLUSION. Wolfram MathWorld™ Web site.http://mathworld.wolfram.com/YoungGirl-OldWomanIllusion.html.
2 Sterzer P, Kleinschmidt A, Rees G. The neural bases of multistable perception. Trends Cogn Sci.2009;13(7):310-318.

THE OLD/YOUNG
WOMAN

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