Loops · Picture puzzle
Cortical ↔ Subcortical
Loops Picture Puzzle
What’s guiding your response?
Piece together a picture. Learn the emphasis it illustrates. Explore how organized thinking and felt experience can inform your next move.
Choose a picture
Eight distinct scenes. Four Cortical. Four Subcortical.
The labels identify the emphasis being explored—not an activity’s only way of processing. Thinking and feeling work together.
Plan the next move
Picture complete.
Which Loops emphasis did this picture highlight?
Use the reference label to reinforce the connection.
Puzzle pieces
9 remainingTap or click a piece, then a position. Or drag with a mouse.
All the pieces are in place.
Cortical / Thinking
Top-down, goal- and model-based guidance. Organize, plan, compare, and manage a response using what you have learned.
Subcortical / Feeling
Bottom-up salience, feeling, value, intensity, and motivation. Attend to the felt significance of active experience.
Integrated Loops: organized thinking informed by the felt value and significance of experience.
How to play · Mouse, touch, and keyboard
Tap or click: select any piece, then choose a board position. A correct piece locks into place; a misplaced piece stays in the tray. The letters identify pieces, not their destination.
Mouse: you can also drag a piece onto the board. Keyboard: Tab to a piece and press Enter or Space. Move among board positions with the arrow keys, or Tab. Press Enter or Space to place the selected piece. Escape clears a selection; when a reference is open, Escape closes it.
Support: the faint guide shows the overall picture. Hint highlights the selected piece’s position—or selects an available piece first. Enlarge the reference to see the complete image and its learning label. Shuffle changes only the unplaced pieces. Choosing another picture or piece count starts a new puzzle.
There is no timer. Progress stays in this page session and resets when the page is reloaded.