Some amazing videos of how the mind processes magic tricks from the Mind Science Foundation. Great performances by Teller (of Penn & Teller), pickpocket Apollo Robbins, and The Amazing Randi. I stumbled on these somehow after reading this article from NYT, written on the occasion of a new study in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, which is available here. From the Nature article’s abstract: “By studying magicians and their techniques, neuroscientists can learn powerful methods to manipulate attention and awareness in the laboratory.”