Tricks of the brain: the magic of everyday perception | Daniel Glaser

Optical illusions play on our nervous system’s ability to focus attention on what matters and ignore the background, says Daniel GlaserThe headmaster of our local primary school performs a magic show at this time of year, but the parents aren’t invited. This child-centred approach is exactly what you would want from a school even though it’s frustrating for a neuroscientist because magic is a really interesting way of studying the brain.Optical illusions have given us very usef