Friday, July 23, 2010

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NEUROMAGIA
Men and U.S. neuroscientists work together to find the neural mechanisms that give scientific explanation to illusions of magic and of conscious experience, and determine the mechanisms that trigger the attention in the brain. The goal of this discipline is its application neurorehabilitation clinical pathologies in which attention is impaired. Visual Neuroscience Laboratory at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, led by English Susana Martinez-Conde, a pioneer in these conflicts.
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neuroscientists have you ever deeper into the brain mechanisms of human beings from more rudimentary methods to have done post-mortem to the current incursions with sophisticated technologies to penetrate almost unknown corner of the living brain. During the last decades, neuroscience has been characterized as a discipline sociable, interested in dialogue with art and culture in a sense so broad that today takes up the magic.

is the neuromagia, which seeks to define the neuroscientific study of the most ancient techniques used by magicians to analyze in the laboratory the great ability to manipulate attention and awareness with these artists. Behind there is a dream pursued by many investigators: achieving determine the neural basis of visual experience, for what scientists explore ways different groups varied. From the Visual Neuroscience Laboratory at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, United States, is discussed as a novel, almost exotic, not esoteric, which is to provide neuroscientific explanation of the illusions that create the magic tricks to once established the neural bases, move the devices of the Magi to the clinic.
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Pen and Teller perform a updated version of the classic trick where you leave a person in half, and still produces a real illusion in the viewer) Its director, the English Susana Martinez-Conde, with the director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology Stephen Macknik, had already worked with a number of visual illusions built not by scientists but by the artist Victor Vasarely, founder of Op-art in the mid-twentieth century. By studying the optical art, characterized by geometric shapes and bright colors that create ambiguous feelings, his group managed to establish some principles inherent in visual processing. "We knew that visual experience not reconstruct reality, but the brain constructs a self that does not always match the physical reality. And now we also know that in the visual arts there are tools that we can invest in the field of vision. "


neuromagia Moving into a term coined by them, is very recent. Martinez-Conde Macknik and co-chaired the 2007 annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Las Vegas, and invited several wizards to participate. While scientists were not involved as victims of the shows themselves were all sorts of thefts and appearances objects in their pockets while talking with wizards. During the session the Magi not only revealed the mechanics of the tricks, but shared their insights on what drives the illusion in the mind of the beholder. As a result, the five participants shared the signature of the article published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, with her and Macknik.
Some hypotheses
In the laboratory of Barrow and working on the insights of the wise men. Appollo Robbins warns that using different hand movements in their shows. If you want the viewer sees only the beginning and end of a path, motions are straight, but if it is necessary to set all the way, the motion is curved.


Martínez-Conde
advances his hypothesis: "If we relied on criteria neuroscientists seems every magician's hand movements activated different eye movement systems in those who watch. The system would use more straight saccade , which allows blind spots that the magician would use to not see what he does, but when it is curved movements would smooth pursuit, only possible when the eyes follow a moving object. In this case the magician wants to concentrate all care for the viewer does not see what is happening elsewhere. "A second hypothesis is that all this is related to that care is better active movements with curved and straight movements, of course, the third contemplate an error in the intuitions magicians.

Neurorehabilitation
When they get transferred to the laboratory magical experience may turn to the second objective: the implementation clinic. Aspire to be able to design therapies in the field of neurorehabilitation for persons with limited resources for treatment of hyperactivity and other disorders, brain trauma, Alzheimer's or neurodegeneration disorders. "We have to learn how magicians manipulate and channel the viewer's attention as efficiently in order to take full advantage of these methods to patients. That would achieve that focus their full attention deficit and eliminate distractions that might deviate from the therapy." According to the neuroscientist, these methods could be transferred also to the educational field, get the teacher will garner the most attention relevante, por ejemplo- y, en general, a cualquier campo de la sociedad donde mantener la atención sea prioritario.

MAGOS COLABORADORES
Entre los magos que colaboran con el Instituto Barrows está Raymond Teller, el mudo del dúo Penn & Teller. Ambos realizan espectáculos magistrales de magia y comedia y superan la decena de premios Emmy. También participan James Randi (The Amazing Randi), que se esfuerza en desenmascarar a videntes, curanderos y astrólogos, y les ofrece un millón de dólares if they can demonstrate scientifically that have powers, and Appollo Robbins, an impressive portfolio that once managed to sneak out of the pockets of some bodyguards portfolios and the secret plan of the route of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Article published on Thursday, July 9, 2009 at ... Medical Journal.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Interval International Best Resort



H o Essential Magic begins
Conference, the first international congress organized online magic in the world that will run on 15, 16 and July 17.

The conference, to be led by the Portuguese Luis de Matos, along with David Britland and Marco Tempest, has with the online presence of stars in the world renowned illusionist Lance Burton, Cyril Takayama, Max Maven, Gaetam Bloom, Jon Finn , Guy Hollingworht, Helder Guimaraes, Lennart Green, Topas, Mike Caven, Gene Matsuura, Paul Kieve, Ton Onosaka or Barry and Stuart from other artists who make up more than thirty illusionists international prestige.

Registration is priced at 55 euros, about $ 75. Registered participants will receive a DVD with all 33 conference of and some extras after finishing the event. Also able to participate online during the seminar by asking questions and issues magical guests.

For more information visit the official website of the event in
http://www.essentialmagicconference.com/