The fact that your brain combines sights and sounds into single perceptions seems patently obvious, but for neuroscientists the phenomenon is surprisingly complicated. From Aristotle on, researchers have tended to study senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste, balance, self-motion, and feelings from the body - in isolation. Magicians, on the other hand, have learned to manipulate perception by understanding when and where the senses dont mix accurately. - Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Brains
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 03:09:54 +0000
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