5/3/2023 0 Comments Magic trick cut person in half"A little discovery that I think maybe Penn and I made, but I'm sure magicians have discovered over the centuries, is that laughter disables your ability to think critically for at least a moment. On using laughter to help distract the audience that is the most profound revelation that I've heard from the people who are doing this sort of something real lab-y, techie kind of stuff." They have discovered, for example, that when a magician makes a straight movement from one point to another, the human eye looks at the first point and then dashes to the second point but doesn't really pay attention to the journey between those two, whereas, if the magician moves in a curved pattern, the eye follows the movement all the way. There are a couple of worthwhile things they have discovered. ecause we equipment that allows you to see exactly the focal point of the eye at any given moment, they have people watch videos of magicians, and they track the position of the people's eyes. "In eye tracking, they're really dealing with the most rudimentary kind of illusion perception. So they're focused on very, very small things." outside of the mine that magicians have been pulling gold out over centuries. And one of the jokes that I make in this article is that those people are really taking soil samples from the. study the brain scans and all that very tiny, tiny detailed stuff trying to hook themselves into the flash of the show business of magic. "Recently there's been a sort of a flurry of activity among neuroscientists who are those people who. this will make psychology more interesting. Disney dust sparkling out of magic wands, and they say. in the halls of academe, and they want something a little more romantic. "Psychologists are tired of being, you know, in labs with rats, and. On why magic is a nice change for psychiatrists and psychologists studying the way people perceive and the way people experience things but in a way that's not going to end up doing them any harm." And so, in a certain way, there's a parallel between that and psychology, in that psychologists are. "Magic gives a human being an opportunity to experience that kind of mistake and experience no harm from it. There are rare occasions in which mere distraction enables you to perform a piece of magic." "There's a term in magic," Teller tells NPR's John Donvan, "misdirection," which laypeople turn to when they want to explain an illusion. But magic is about more than controlling the audience's attention. If it does, it's a success, both for the magician and the scientist. In a piece for Smithsonian magazine, Teller writes, "At the core of every trick is a cold, cognitive experiment in perception. Meanwhile, brain researchers are interested to learn more about how magicians manipulate the mind. ![]() But now he's talking, explaining how magicians harness scientific research on deception to trick audiences into falling for their illusions. On stage, Teller, half of the magician team of Penn & Teller, rarely says a word. In a recent article for Smithsonian Magazine, Teller (right), half of the magic team Penn & Teller, explains the art and science of mental manipulation.
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