In an earlier post Looking at something doesn't mean we see it: Will becoming a magician improve your negotiation skills?, I looked at what magicians are teaching neuroscientists about perception. (That post has several later-added related links.) For those of you interested in this topic and what we are learning from magicians, here's a new article from Scientific American: "Magic and the Brain: How Magicians 'Trick' the Mind." Amazing how easily we can be tricked, isn't it?
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