dc.contributor.author | Wiseman, Richard J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nakano, Tamami | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-24T14:25:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-24T14:25:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-04-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wiseman , R J & Nakano , T 2016 , ' Blink and you'll miss it: The role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks ' , PeerJ , vol. 2016 , no. 4 , e1873 . https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1873 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2167-8359 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17551 | |
dc.description | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. | |
dc.description.abstract | Magicians use several techniques to deceive their audiences, including, for example, the misdirection of attention and verbal suggestion. We explored another potential stratagem, namely the relaxation of attention. Participants watched a video of a highly skilled magician whilst having their eye-blinks recorded. The timing of spontaneous eye-blinks was highly synchronized across participants. In addition, the synchronized blinks frequency occurred immediately after a seemingly impossible feat, and often coincided with actions that the magician wanted to conceal from the audience. Given that blinking is associated with the relaxation of attention, these findings suggest that blinking plays an important role in the perception of magic, and that magicians may utilize blinking and the relaxation of attention to hide certain secret actions. | en |
dc.format.extent | 630105 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | PeerJ | |
dc.subject | Attention | |
dc.subject | Blinking | |
dc.subject | Conjuring | |
dc.subject | Illusion | |
dc.subject | Magic | |
dc.subject | Perception | |
dc.subject | Psychology | |
dc.title | Blink and you'll miss it: The role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Psychology | |
dc.contributor.institution | Behaviour Change in Health and Business | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Life and Medical Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | University of Hertfordshire | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Research in Psychology and Sport Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | Learning, Memory and Thinking | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84965169914&partnerID=8YFLogxK | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.7717/peerj.1873 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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