There's More To Magic Than Meets The Eye

Magicians always fascinated me as a child. I could never understand how magicians could fool so many people so easily. After reading this article, I realize that magicians use social cues and a person’s expectations to fool them; however, we are not 100% fooled. Researchers have found that while we may perceive to have seen a ball thrown, our eyes do not follow the perceived ball through the air. In fact, our oculomotor system, which governs motor control over the eye, is not fooled in the least by the magician. Experiments show that while observers claim to have seen the ball in some area of space after seeing the illusion, their eyes were never actually looking in that direction at all. This article further supports the theory there exist two separate neural pathways for perception and visuomotor control. Learn more by reading this article:

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