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References from Magic and cognition: a scoping review of empirical evidence on cognitive and neural processes. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
A balanced view of impossible aesthetics: an empirical investigation of how impossibility relates to our enjoyment of magic tricks
10.1177/20416695221142537 · 2023 · External reference
Supporting the psychological health of our students: an arts-based community magic workshop for adapting to university life
10.1037/cns0000315 · 2022 · External reference
Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic
10.16910/jemr.12.6.7 · 2019 · External reference
Blinded by magic: eye-movements reveal the misdirection of attention
10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01461 · 2014 · External reference
The vanishing coin illusion: when sound congruence affects visual representation of motion
10.3758/s13414-023-02776-4 · 2023 · External reference
MAGNITIVE: effectiveness and feasibility of a cognitive training program through magic tricks for children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. A second clinical trial in community settings
10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649527 · 2021 · External reference
Where is the ball? Behavioral and neural responses elicited by a magic trick
10.1111/psyp.12691 · 2016 · External reference
The magic grasp: motor expertise in deception
10.1371/journal.pone.0016568 · 2011 · External reference
The magic hand: plasticity of mental hand representation
10.1177/1747021817741606 · 2018 · External reference
Visual cognition and the science of magic
10.3390/vision7030056 · 2023 · External reference
Social misdirection fails to enhance a magic illusion
10.3389/fnhum.2011.00103 · 2011 · External reference
Working wonders? Investigating insight with magic tricks
10.1016/j.cognition.2013.11.003 · 2014 · External reference
An fMRI investigation of expectation violation in magic tricks
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00084 · 2015 · External reference
Never repeat the same trick twice—unless it is cognitively impenetrable
10.1177/2041669518816711 · 2018 · External reference
Illusory visual completion of an object's invisible backside can make your finger feel shorter
10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.001 · 2016 · External reference
Magic for the mind's eye: a promising avenue for more universal design in the art of magic
10.1177/20416695231222995 · 2024 · External reference
Investigating expert performance when observing magic effects
10.1038/s41598-022-09161-5 · 2022 · External reference
Magic, Bayes and wows: a Bayesian account of magic tricks
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.04.001 · 2021 · External reference
Cognitive style predicts how people explain mental magic tricks
10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103347 · 2021 · External reference
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Can magic deception be detected at an unconscious level?
10.1177/0301006616682513 · 2017 · External reference
Towards a science of magic
10.1016/j.tics.2008.05.008 · External reference
Misdirection, attention and awareness: inattentional blindness reveals temporal relationship between eye movements and visual awareness
10.1080/17470210902846757 · 2010 · External reference
How magic changes our expectations about autism
10.1177/0956797610383435 · 2010 · External reference
The vanishing ball illusion: a new perspective on the perception of dynamic events
10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.003 · 2016 · External reference
You look where I look! Effect of gaze cues on overt and covert attention in misdirection
10.1080/13506280902826775 · 2009 · External reference
Misdirection in magic: implications for the relationship between eye gaze and attention
10.1080/13506280701479750 · External reference
The effects of a magic intervention program on cognitive function and neurocognitive performance in elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment
10.3389/fnagi.2022.854984 · 2022 · External reference
Intuitions about magic track the development of intuitive physics
10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104762 · 2021 · External reference
Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
10.1038/nrn2473 · 2008 · External reference
Exploring curiosity, interest, and surprise: normative ratings of a magic trick video dataset in Italy
10.1038/s41597-026-06897-x · 2026 · External reference
The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks
10.1038/s41597-024-03675-5 · 2024 · External reference
The magic of magic: the effect of magic tricks on subsequent engagement with lecture material
10.1111/bjep.12133 · 2017 · External reference
Assessing the role of magician patter on deception in the three-card Monte
10.1038/s41598-026-43656-9 · 2026 · External reference
Influencing choice without awareness
10.1016/j.concog.2015.01.004 · External reference
Explanations of a magic trick across the life span
10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00219 · External reference
Exploiting failures in metacognition through magic: visual awareness as a source of visual metacognition bias
10.1016/j.concog.2018.08.008 · 2018 · External reference
Rayyan: a web and mobile app for systematic reviews
10.1186/s13643-016-0384-4 · 2016 · External reference
Magic curiosity arousing tricks (MagicCATs): a novel stimulus collection to induce epistemic emotions
10.3758/s13428-020-01431-2 · 2021 · External reference
The magic curiosity arousing tricks (MagicCATs) database in Italian younger and middle-aged adults: descriptive statistics and rule-based machine learning
10.3758/s13428-025-02884-z · 2026 · External reference
Imaging the impossible: an fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.036 · 2009 · External reference
Problem solving of magic tricks: guiding to and through an impasse with solution cues
10.1080/13546783.2019.1668479 · 2020 · External reference
Hierarchical surprise signals in naturalistic violation of expectations
10.1162/imag_a_00459 · 2025 · External reference
A kind of magic: enhanced detection of pantomimed grasps in professional magicians
10.1177/1747021820918533 · 2020 · External reference
A framework for using magic to study the mind
10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01508 · 2015 · External reference
Nothing magical: pantomimed grasping is controlled by the ventral system
10.1007/s00221-016-4868-1 · 2017 · External reference
RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
10.1136/bmj.l4898 · 2019 · External reference
The illusion of absence in magic tricks
10.1177/2041669520928383 · 2020 · External reference
Magicians fix your mind: how unlikely solutions block obvious ones
10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.002 · 2016 · External reference
The phantom vanish magic trick: investigating the disappearance of a non-existent object in a dynamic scene
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00950 · 2016 · External reference
PRISMA extension for scoping reviews (PRISMA-ScR): checklist and explanation
10.7326/m18-0850 · 2018 · External reference
Pedagogic prestidigitation: using magic tricks to enhance educational videos
10.7717/peerj.9610 · 2020 · External reference
Recalling pseudo-psychic demonstrations
10.1111/j.2044-8295.1995.tb02549.x · 1995 · External reference
Blink and you'll miss it: the role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks
10.7717/peerj.1873 · 2016 · External reference
As if by magic: an abrupt change in motion direction induces change blindness
10.1177/0956797618822969 · 2019 · External reference
