Forget lightning speed calculations, technological superiority and machine-like precision. Thanks to the efforts of some researchers, artificial intelligence can now create magic. “We’ve done ...

Employ the familiar: Magicians play into your brain’s need to spot patterns. If a magician shows you only a few cards from a trick deck, your brain will fill in the blanks and you’ll assume ...

Scientists fed a computer program with information about how certain types of tricks work - a magic jigsaw puzzle and a mind-reading card trick - and also gave it information about how humans ...

People's perceptions of magic tricks and why they are effective are often in direct contrast to how magicians feel their performances are being received by their audiences, new research has suggested.

Magic tricks work by exploiting our powers of perception but what does that tell us about how the brain works? And how did 19th Century spiritualists use magic in séances?

Understanding how magic tricks work could help to protect people from manipulation by politicians and marketing, say researchers. A study from Goldsmiths, University of London, says the psychology ...

We performed magic tricks on birds to see how they perceive the world Published: June 2, 2021 10:12am EDT Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works.

Then there are so-called self-working magic tricks, which are guaranteed to work by mathematical principles. For example, say I ask you to write down a four-digit number and show me.

Performing magic tricks with Eurasian jays helps scientists to understand the animals’ powers of perception, but also their ability to read minds, remember the past and anticipate the future.