‘What happens inside your brain when you’re experiencing something that you know to be impossible?’ ‘What happens inside your brain when you’re experiencing something that you know to be impossible?’ ...

A magician is using his knowledge of magic theory and practice to investigate the brain’s powers of observation. A magician is using his knowledge of magic theory and practice to investigate the brain ...

And these tricks, say Kuhn and Rensink, are just the beginning. They call on scientists to explain "all known magic effects in terms of known perceptual and cognitive mechanisms." When a trick can't ...

Magicians like David Blaine, Penn and Teller could soon have a new trick up their sleeves: brain imaging. Functional-MRI scans of people watching magic tricks implicate two brain regions that ...

Are the secrets behind the world's greatest magic tricks actually wired into the human brain? Eccentric magicians Penn and Teller and Las Vegas trickster Apollo Robbins team up with neuroscientists to ...

For ages, magicians have bewildered audiences with sleight of hand, causing observers to ask, “How’d they do that?” Little did folks know, some magicians aren’t entirely sure either. A team of ...

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“I’m going to flip through here and I want you to glance at a card in the middle,” Jay Olson tells his volunteer, offering the deck of cards in his hands. “Not the bottom one—that’s kind of simple for ...