#85: Neuromagic & Illusion - Stephen Macknik, PhD & Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
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Is Magic Tricks a Way to Study Cognition?
I love this idea of using magic as a way of studying cognition. And to quote you that say, magic tricks fool us because humans have hard wired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable. Soim hopem you could give an example or two of specific cases of this, of how magic is leverage to ono cotanqot hack our minds. Ye. I guess one good example of a magic trick that takes advantage of anoral wiring would be the capsambols trick. It has been used at least since roman times, ancient rome we're talking about. This trick takes advantage of the fact that we cannot multitask. Our neurology does not allow us
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