Sleight of Hand & Pickpocketing by Apollo Robbins Misdirection and theft of Art

Robbins Apollo performed a single coin process, error boot and steal art in a magic convention!

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YORK: Our NEW reactions to common magic tricks and illusions are untapped resources for helping understand how the human brain works an American study says.

'Cognitive illusions', used by performing magicians, could give insight into both human awareness and attention, the two fields of great interest to neuroscientists, says the study in a recent issue of the British JournalNeuroscience Nature .

The wheel Reinventing

According to Susana Martinez-Conde, co-author and visual neuroscientist, scientists have been "reinventing the wheel," by researching aspects of consciousness that magicians already intuitively spread

That end To, "want to establish a dialogue between we neuroscience and cognitive art," said. she

According to Martinez-Conde based at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, discussions with magicians have revealed several key principles that may be "the new amendable to neuroscience research." the

These areas of interest - which were revealed at the magic of consciousness symposium, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in June 2007 - include specific hand motions used to direct attention, the magician's use of humour during an act, and the fact that magicians perform under the audience's scrutiny, yet are still adept at fooling them.

Apollo Robbins, a professional thief once credited with pick pocketing secret service agents for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, showed the cognitive scientists at the symposium that circular hand gestures to catch the eye, much better than moving a hand straight from point a to point B. this trick is used by pickpockets to her their victims.

According to U.S. magician Jimmy Thompson - also known as' the great Tomsoni'- time stops for people as they laugh, a concept exploited by magicians when they want to her an audience from a key part of a trick.

Of illusions Combination

Is it Why that humour will engage attention to such a powerful degree that you can't do anything else at the same time asked Martinez-Conde who hopes to find the answer to that question.

Most audience members operate on the assumption that the conjurer is the the combination of illusions to trick them. The important question for cognitive research, said Martinez-Conde, is how magicians are still able to trick an entire audience of people who are already sceptical of their work?

Now plans She to test the hand motion concept in the laboratory and if found to be true why a curved motion better engages our brain's attention than straight one.

Wang a, neuroscientist at Princeton University New in Samuel Jersey called, the report "convincing".

"It's not commonly appreciated, but our everyday experience of life is deeply coloured by the way our brains work, quirks and all," said Wang. "Is [Magic] a great example that brings this principle."