Anthony Barnhart 2020 APA Keynote Address: Magic in the Lab
Channel: Anthony Barnhart
Date: 2020-08-07

Keynote address presented at the 2020 virtual American Psychological Association Convention, August 6, 2020.

Magic in the Lab: Psychological Insights from Magicians
Recent years have seen widespread interest in a “science of magic” that learns from the psychological insights and methods of magicians, who are themselves informal cognitive scientists testing their hypotheses in the real world. In just the last decade, renowned magicians have authored papers meant to be read not by magicians, but by scientists who study attention and perception. In his presentation, Dr. Barnhart will discuss the long history of interaction between psychologists and magicians. Along the way, using live performance and video, he will introduce some of the techniques and theories from the world of magic that have inspired research in laboratories around the world (including his own).

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