Scientists and Magicians Describe How Tricks Exploit Glitches in Perception - NYTimes.com

Citation added: August 13th, 2008, 6:02 pm
In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a team of brain scientists and prominent magicians described how magic tricks, both simple and spectacular, take advantage of glitches in how the brain constructs a model of the outside world from moment to moment, or what we think of as objective reality.
Additional Source Details

neuroscience | magic | human | behaviour | cognitive-science | cognition | brain

Magic Tricks Reveal Inner Workings of the Brain | Wired Science from Wired.com

Citation added: July 24th, 2008, 6:04 pm
Now some psychologists are considering how they can use magic to advance our understanding of the brain -- and perhaps help inoculate us against advertising.
Additional Source Details

magic | psychology | cognition | cognitive-science | perception | advertising | brain | neuroscience

Website Screenshots by Custom Shots

Tags

brain cognition cognitive-science magic neuroscience

The "Brain Citations" area of Footnotez is authored by 6 unique contributors. "Brain Citations" is also available as a RSS feed for syndication.

 del.icio.us | digg | Squidoo | Technorati | Yahoo My Web
Bookmarkz