Kuhn, Gustav and Thomas, Cyril. 2021. What can magic reveal about the brain. In: George Koob and Sergio Della Sala, eds. Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience. 2nd Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 597-604. ISBN 9780128196410 [Book Section]

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The art of magic relies on tricking our brains into experiencing the impossible. Years of performance experience has allowed magicians to refine and perfect their deceptive techniques, and scientists have now started to investigate these techniques to help uncover some of the mysteries of the human brain. The Science of Magic has become a field of its own right, and huge advances have been made in furthering our understanding why these illusions work. We review the latest scientific research on magic and misdirection and explore what these deceptive techniques tells us about perception, memory and reasoning.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24099-6
Keywords:	Magic, Misdirection, Illusion, Deception, Attention, Perception, Memory, Reasoning, Consciousness, free will, meta-knowledge
Related URLs:	https://www.elsevier.com/books/encyclope...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 1 January 2020 Accepted 17 September 2021 Published
Item ID:	28212
Date Deposited:	25 Feb 2020 10:31
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2021 14:55
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28212

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