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Barrow scientists work their magic
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Two neuroscientists at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center are turning magic tricks into science. Stephen Macknik, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology; and ...
Age-old magic tricks can provide clues for modern science
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Revealing the science behind age-old magic tricks will help us better understand how humans see, think, and act, according to researchers at the University of British Columbia and Durham University in the U.K.
'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain.
Hollow mask illusion fails to fool schizophrenia patients
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Patients with schizophrenia are able to correctly see through an illusion known as the 'hollow mask' illusion, probably because their brain disconnects 'what the eyes see' from what 'the brain thinks it is seeing', according ...
Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots
Nov 23, 2009 |
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A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...
Fountain of Youth to be found in the anthill?
Biology /
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Aging – we are all doing it. It is relentless and terminal. Auguries and alchemists, mendicants and magicians, philosophers and science fiction writers, researchers and plastic surgeons have employed all their ...
