Yet another article that extends from the original article published in November 2008 in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
“The interest for magic has been there for a long time,” says Gustav Kuhn, a neuroscientist at Durham University in England and former performing magician. “What is new is that we have all these techniques to get a better idea of the inner workings of these principles.”
These new techniques promise to give scientists front-row seats to magic’s action in the brain and may yield insight into the very basis of consciousness itself.
“We do this because we want to know how the human brain works,” says Stephen Macknik, a colleague of Martinez-Conde at the institute. “That’s a fundamental question.”
Everything will merge into one. Magic, Science, Religion, Awareness…
I’ve read so many articles on this – incredible how it only comes to light now.
Does anyone have a link to the original Nature article?
If you use the Search you’ll find all the related articles – but they do cross over a lot.