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We performed magic tricks on birds to see how they perceive the world – The Conversation UK
Testing whether the birds react to sleight of hand helps us understand if they see the world like we do.
Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in peoples attention and perception so the techniques that magicians use to trick audiences are particularly interesting to psychologists like me.
Misdirection, for example, relies on the control of the audiences attention to fool them. A magician will divert the audiences attention away from things that show how the trick is done, towards the effect they want them to see. This and other magic techniques…
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