The science of magic tricks: From misdirection to ‘pausing’ time, experts reveal how their illusions mess with our minds..
– Neuroscientists explain how the art of misdirection works on our brains
– Also explain how by multitasking, the audience is unable to focus on detail
– Using comedy or gory images also dominates the viewers’ attention
– Techniques are used by magicians to divert attention from ‘the tell’
A magician must make a trick look effortless, but it’s very unlikely that anything is casual or spontaneous in a magic show.
Just as you might go to a ballet and imagine the sweat and tears needed to achieve amazing dance moves, magic is choreographed but mustn’t look like it is.
Artists of all kinds, including magicians, are connoisseurs of human behaviour and perception and now neuroscientists have revealed just how their tricks mess with our brains. Read more… (Very interesting article)