Magic reveals the brain's response to the impossible

Something neat everyone here might like.


Magic reveals the brain's response to the impossible

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16407-magic-reveals-the-brains-response-to-the-impossible.html

Based on this paper:

Imaging the impossible: An fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WNP-4V8GB54-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=6fc2ba8a49f92218278c6783eb12ba23

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Reminds me of that talk Teller did for the mind science foundation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5x14AwElOk