scholarly journals Are magicians specialists at identifying deceptive motion? The role of expertise in being fooled by sleight of hand.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Garcia-Pelegrin ◽  
Clive Wilkins ◽  
Nicola Clayton
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Attention And Perception ◽  
Inherent Ambiguity ◽  
Blind Spots

Abstract The use of magic effects to investigate the blind spots in the attention and perception and roadblocks in the cognition of the spectator has yielded thought-provoking results elucidating how these techniques operate. However, little is known about the interplay between experience practising magic and being deceived by magic effects. In this study, we performed two common sleight of hand effects and their real transfer counterparts to non-magicians, and to magicians with a diverse range of experience practising magic. Although, as a group, magicians identified the sleights of hand as deceptive actions significantly more than non-magicians; this ability was only evidenced in magicians with more than 5 years in the craft. However, unlike the rest of the participants, experienced magicians had difficulty correctly pinpointing the location of the coin in one of the real transfers presented. We hypothesise that this might be due to the inherent ambiguity of this transfer, in which, contrary to the other real transfer performed, no clear perceptive clue is given about the location of the coin. We suggest that extensive time practising magic might have primed experienced magicians to anticipate foul play when observing ambiguous movements, even when the actions observed are genuine.

scholarly journals Are magicians specialists at identifying deceptive motion? The role of expertise in being fooled by sleight of hand.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Garcia-Pelegrin ◽  
Clive Wilkins ◽  
Nicola Clayton
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Attention And Perception ◽  
Inherent Ambiguity ◽  
Blind Spots

Abstract The use of magic effects to investigate the blind spots in the attention and perception and roadblocks in the cognition of the spectator has yielded thought-provoking results elucidating how these techniques operate. However, little is known about the interplay between experience practising magic and being deceived by magic effects. In this study, we performed two common sleight of hand effects and their real transfer counterparts to non-magicians, and to magicians with a diverse range of experience practising magic. Although, as a group, magicians identified the sleights of hand as deceptive actions significantly more than non-magicians; this ability was only evidenced in magicians with more than 5 years in the craft. However, unlike the rest of the participants, experienced magicians had difficulty correctly pinpointing the location of the coin in one of the real transfers presented. We hypothesise that this might be due to the inherent ambiguity of this transfer, in which, contrary to the other real transfer performed, no clear perceptive clue is given about the location of the coin. We suggest that extensive time practising magic might have primed experienced magicians to anticipate foul play when observing ambiguous movements, even when the actions observed are genuine.

scholarly journals Are magicians specialists at identifying deceptive motion? The role of expertise in being fooled by sleight of hand.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Garcia-Pelegrin ◽  
Clive Wilkins ◽  
Nicola Clayton
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Real ◽  
Inherent Ambiguity

Abstract In this study we performed two common sleight of hand effects and their real transfer counterparts to non-magicians and to magicians with a diverse range of experience practicing magic. Although, as a group, magicians identified the sleights of hand as deceptive actions significantly more than non-magicians; this ability was only evidenced in magicians with more than 5 years in the craft. However, unlike the rest of participants, experienced magicians had difficulty in correctly pinpointing the location of the coin in one of the real transfers presented. We hypothesise that this might be due to the inherent ambiguity of this transfer, in which, contrary to the other real transfer performed, no clear perceptive clue is given in reference to the location of the coin. We suggest that extensive time practicing magic might have primed experienced magicians to anticipate foul play when observing ambiguous movements, even when the actions observed are genuine.

scholarly journals Exploring the perceptual inabilities of Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) using magic effects

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (24) ◽  
pp. e2026106118
Author(s):  
Elias Garcia-Pelegrin ◽  
Alexandra K. Schnell ◽  
Clive Wilkins ◽  
Nicola S. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Nonhuman Animal ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Hand ◽  
Garrulus Glandarius ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Attention And Perception ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Blind Spots

In recent years, scientists have begun to use magic effects to investigate the blind spots in our attention and perception [G. Kuhn, Experiencing the Impossible: The Science of Magic (2019); S. Macknik, S. Martinez-Conde, S. Blakeslee, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions (2010)]. Recently, we suggested that similar techniques could be transferred to nonhuman animal observers and that such an endeavor would provide insight into the inherent commonalities and discrepancies in attention and perception in human and nonhuman animals [E. Garcia-Pelegrin, A. K. Schnell, C. Wilkins, N. S. Clayton, Science 369, 1424–1426 (2020)]. Here, we performed three different magic effects (palming, French drop, and fast pass) to a sample of six Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius). These magic effects were specifically chosen as they utilize different cues and expectations that mislead the spectator into thinking one object has or has not been transferred from one hand to the other. Results from palming and French drop experiments suggest that Eurasian jays have different expectations from humans when observing some of these effects. Specifically, Eurasian jays were not deceived by effects that required them to expect an object to move between hands when observing human hand manipulations. However, similar to humans, Eurasian jays were misled by magic effects that utilize fast movements as a deceptive action. This study investigates how another taxon perceives the magician’s techniques of deception that commonly deceive humans.

scholarly journals The Feminist Utopia in Prema Shah and Rokeya S. Hossain: Linking the Real to the Ideal

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Komal Prasad Phuyal
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Society ◽  
Role Of Men ◽  
Feminist Utopia

Prema Shah’s “A Husband” and Rokeya S. Hossain’s “Sultana’s Dream” present two complementary versions of women’s world: the real in Shah and the imagined in Hossain aspire to make the other complete. The worldview that each author projects in their texts reasserts the latent spirit of the other one. The embedded interconnectedness between the authors under discussion reveals their unique association and bond of women’s creative unity towards paving a road for the upliftment of women in general. The paper seeks to find out the historical forces leading to the formation of a certain type of bond between these two authors from different historical and socio-cultural realities. Shah locates a typical Nepali woman in the protagonist in the patriarchal order while Hossain pictures the contemporary Bengali Islamic society and reverses the role of men and women. Hossain’s ideal world and Shah’s real world form two complementary versions of each other: despite opposite in nature, each world completes the other. Sultana moves to the world of dream to seek a new order because Nirmala’s world exercises every form of tortures upon the women’s self. Shah exposes the social reality dictating upon the women’s self while Hossain’s protagonist escapes into the world of dream where women control the social reality effectively and successfully. Overall, Shah and Hossain complement each other’s world by presenting two alternative versions of the same reality, creating the feminist utopia.

A model for teaching multiplication of fractional numbers

1973 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
George F. Green
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Real World ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Mature Students ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pedagogical Models ◽  
Fractional Numbers

Mature students of mathematics can readily cope with new and abstract terms if precise definitions of the terms are provided. For such students, neither the new term nor its definition needs to have any obvious connection with the real world. Most young children, on the other hand, require relatively clear associations between abstract terms and physical reality. Making these associations is the role of pedagogical models. The word model has many meanings in mathematics and elsewhere, but it is used here simply to mean an assignment of meaning to an abstraction, in familiar—frequently physical—terms. The child's model, then, is somewhat analogous to the mathematician's definition.

Lacan and the Question of the Psychotherapist's Ethical Orientation

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Olivier
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Relativism ◽  
Ethical Orientation ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ethical Stance

This article addresses the thorny issue of the psychologist or psychotherapist's values or ethical orientation. The suggestion is made that certain aspects of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical theory provide the resources to overcome the obstacle of arbitrariness or relativism faced by psychotherapists who unavoidably have to take an ethical stance — implicitly if not explicitly — in relation to clients' or analysands' lives and decisions. The dilemma faced by the psychotherapist is recontructed and specific aspects of the poststructuralist psychoanalytical theory of Lacan are addressed. These include the function of the subject's position in the symbolic register (in contrast to the imaginary register of the ego), the role of the unconscious as the ‘discourse of the Other’, of narrative and of repressed signifiers as ethical ‘anchoring points’. Crucially, however, the implications of the register of the ‘real’ for the ethics of the psychoanalyst as psychotherapist are added. These, offer invaluable means of overcoming the dilemma of ethical relativism faced by psychotherapists.

scholarly journals Ethnographic interview: science play in two acts and interpretation techniques

Inter ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 26-49
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Rogozin
Keyword(s):  
Educational Practice ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Real ◽  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
Research Communication ◽  
Ethnographic Interview ◽  
The Given

The article is devoted to the aspects of the ethnographic interview treated as a specific form of research communication. It is submitted that the ethnographic interview is not just an oral communication of participants, but also the following interpretation of communicative situations, analytical revision of narrative into structured figures and graphs with in-depth description. The author presents the interview in the shape of the science play in two acts with four actions in each. On one side, the science play is a stylized revision of the real interview, so the dialogue among characters is not so different from the transcript of the interview. On the other side, the science play is the space for the intellectual discourse and educational practice. That is why the author adds the role of the commentator, who creates the scientific composition of the play by theoretical and methodological conceptualization of the dialogue. The article also discusses different variants of structuring and interpreting the ethnographic interview stages using the example of the given science play.

scholarly journals Culture as an impact on a language

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Samira Jafarzade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Culture Dependent ◽  
Culture And Language

This article covers what two concepts, such as language and culture have in common, and what the role of language is in the cultural practices. The theme is one of the great curiosity from the point of glance of the use of various types of lexicology. Most people have the same opinion that the culture and language are closely connected. Some of them also say that “culture is language” or “language is culture”. All expressions of the culture don`t require language, and also all aspects of the language aren`t culture-dependent. Сulture and language are so intertwined whereas one can`t survive without the other one. It is not possible to teach someone language without teaching the culture of the same language. Each word which is used in the communication process is an example of the values, beliefs and their origins. It is important to grow up with a various set of beliefs and values to understand the real connection between culture and language.

scholarly journals Korean roleplayer dan dampaknya terhadap kepribadian di dunia nyata (studi kasus pada remaja)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Hapsari
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real World ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Real

K-pop culture in Indonesia has mushroomed among teenagers and of course it makes teenagers want to be able to communicate more closely with their idols. The role of the fans was shown through several things one of which is by playing roleplayer on Twitter. The purpose of this study is that through roleplayers fans can represent their idols according to what they expect in their daily lives through social media twitter. This study uses a qualitative method by observing case studies that examine the virtual world of roleplayers, the results of this study are fans doing roleplaying activities to fulfill the fanaticism of the idol to fulfill his desire to represent themselves and create a new virtual identity in cyberspace. The result is unwittingly this rolepayer activity also changes the personality of the culprit in the real world created by his imagination because of playing roleplayer too often, but on the other hand this roleplayer game also brings a positive impact on the culprit. with this article it is hoped that roleplayer can be more careful in representing themselves as other people in cyberspace because it will affect their personalities in the real world.

scholarly journals THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC BETWEEN THE PARLIAMENTARY AND SEMI-PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-122
Author(s):  
DARKO GOLIĆ
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Real ◽  
Direct Election ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Presidential System ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
The Republic

The position and role of the head of state are crucial for determining whether a system of government can be determined as a parliamentary or semi-presidential one. In the five states of the former Yugoslavia, the established systems of government, although in principle parliamentary, contain a mixture of elements of these two systems. In addition to direct election, which is common to all these five states, proximity to one or the other system is determined by the scope and content of the powers of the head of state, and his position in relation to parliament and government. In that respect, analyzed systems postion themselfs in different places between those two systems. However, constitutional solutions in countries that go beyond the parliamentary system, yet do not reach the semi-presidential system, do not always correspond to the real role of the head of state, which is especially contributed by his (non) party character, numerous political factors, and areas of shared competencies and powers.

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