Blink and You Miss It

"You Can't Miss it!": Judging the Clarity of Directions

Blink and you'll miss it: the role of blinking in the perception of magic tricks.

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. I...

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Service Forsch Komplementmed 2015;22:333–335 334 Michiyo N, Hitoshi O: A single session of an integrated yoga program as a stress management tool for school employees: comparison of daily practice and nondaily practice of a yoga therapy program. J Altern Complement Med 2015;21:444–449. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the daily practice of a yoga therapy program lea...

Made you blink! Contingent attentional capture produces a spatial blink.

Previous studies have shown that the capture of attention by an irrelevant stimulus can be eliminated by fore knowledge of the spatial location of the relevant target stimulus. To explore whether spatial certainty is sufficient to eliminate capture, four experiments are reported in which the spatial location of the target is certain but the temporal position is uncertain. Subjects viewed a cent...