How the art of the illusionists is contributing to neurology:

<em>Magicians are so adept at manipulating attention that cognitive scientists have started bringing them into their labs to learn more. Susana Martinez-Conde of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, is one. "My hope is that the cognitive illusions of magicians can help scientists understand awareness, just as visual illusions have helped us to understand sight," she says....  "For years, scientists have been reinventing wheels that magicians have known about for ages."</em>

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