May 9, 2009

Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion


Wired, May 2009
Our brains don't see everything -- the world is too big, too full of stimuli. So the brain takes shortcuts, constructing a picture of reality with relatively simple algorithms for what things are supposed to look like.

Magicians capitalize on those rules.

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