Source: Funkdooby, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Elias Garcia-Pelegrin first learned to perform magic as an undergraduate student. Now, as part of his doctoral ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention ...

Magic tricks make the impossible seem possible. Magicians have long captivated audiences with visual tricks, such as pulling a bunny from a hat or sawing someone in half, but tricks that rely on sound ...

Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here What can stage magic reveal about cognitive biases? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Researchers at the Institute ...

A Humboldt's squirrel monkey is fooled by the "French Drop" magic trick. Credit: E. Garcia-Pelegrin et al., 2023 The key to a successful sleight-of-hand magic trick is how well a magician manipulates ...