Is Your Brain Too Smart for Magic Tricks?

Streaming video - 2017

We've all been fooled by a magic trick at one point or another. But we rarely stop to think about how magicians are simply manipulating pre-existing shortcomings in our minds. Here, explore some of the neurological principles magicians rely on, including selective attention, inattention blindness, and change blindness.

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[San Francisco, California, USA] : The Great Courses 2017.
2018.
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English
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A Kanopy streaming video
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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00:29:48
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).