accurately predicting their mates food preferences so yeah they're pretty smart which has made them an easy choice for this research sadly scientists skipped the top hats and capes and magic wands and pyrotechnics for this particular experiment they tried fooling the jays with three different tricks a fast pass where the magician moved to treat quickly between hands palming where the magician hid the treat with one hand and the french drop which was basically just fake moving the treat from one hand to the other all three tricks have the same point fooling the jays into thinking there was or wasn't a treat in the magician's hand and all three usually work on humans and they found that the birds were fooled by one of the tricks but not the others for the palming and french drop tricks to work the birds would have to have expectations about what the magician scientists were probably going to do with their hands these didn't fool the jays and that makes sense because these tricks require the observer to have some past experience and understanding of what normal human actions result in the fast pass trick which just involves rapid motion did fool the birds so humans and jays are both likely to be tricked by sleight of hand that's based on gaps in our visual perception and not on abstract thought the inability or ability to be fooled by a magic trick can teach us a lot about how different animals perceive things and that can help us understand how human cognition works too by showing how our brains work similarly to other species and what might make us unique and for my next trick i'm going to make this scishow episode disappear amazing thanks to lego education for supporting this episode of scishow lego education is rethinking learning with fun and engaging solutions that allow students to build important steam and social emotional skills while learning through purposeful play with the new lego education spike essential solution students in grades one to five build NUMBER_TOKENst century skills like critical thinking creativity and collaboration through problem solving and storytelling spike essential includes five playful curriculum units packed with hours of standards aligned content this includes projects like the trash monster machine sophie is trying to figure out a more fun way to clean up and throw away trash so students will help her by designing a wacky automated trash monster that reacts in different ways to different colors of trash each set comes in a classroom ready sturdy storage box with NUMBER_TOKEN lego bricks and hardware plus each set is designed to be shared by up to two students at a time spike essential is part of the new lego learning system a system of steam learning with solutions that work together to deliver engaging hands-on and playful learning experiences to support every student on their learning journey click the link in the description to learn more about how lego education solutions can engage all learners build their confidence and spark a lifelong love of learning and you can also check out this week's episode of scishow kids to see lego spike essential in action
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN and for my next trick i'm going to make this scishow episode disappear amazing thanks to lego education for supporting this episode of scishow lego education is rethinking learning with fun and engaging solutions that allow students to build important steam and social emotional skills while learning through purposeful play with the new lego education spike essential solution students in grades one to five build NUMBER_TOKENst century skills like critical thinking creativity and collaboration through problem solving and storytelling spike essential includes five playful curriculum units packed with hours of standards aligned content this includes projects like the trash monster machine sophie is trying to figure out a more fun way to clean up and throw away trash so students will help her by designing a wacky automated trash monster that reacts in different ways to different colors of trash each set comes in a classroom ready sturdy storage box with NUMBER_TOKEN lego bricks and hardware plus each set is designed to be shared by up to two students at a time spike essential is part of the new lego learning system a system of steam learning with solutions that work together to deliver engaging hands-on and playful learning experiences to support every student on their learning journey click the link in the description to learn more about how lego education solutions can engage all learners build their confidence and spark a lifelong love of learning and you can also check out this week's episode of scishow kids to see lego spike essential in END_SPONSOR_TOKEN