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Magic, it seems, is possible because of brain glitches

0 Comment(s) August 13, 2008 at 11:56am by thecodepounder

In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a team of brain scientists and prominent magicians described how magic tricks, both simple and spectacular, take advantage of glitches in how the brain constructs a model of the outside world from moment to moment, or what we think of as objective reality.

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