Table top gaming consoles — so-called magic tables — are taking off in memory care communities, providing an easy way to stimulate the brains of those with memory impairing diseases. Wheelock Terrace ...

Autistic children who can't spot social clues aren't fooled by magic tricks. Nov. 10, 2009— -- The magician placed a coin atop an airtight rubber seal on a cup and -- abracadabra -- the shiny ...

Tapping into social cues to trick their audience, magicians rely on a phenomenon called joint attention. Most audience members will pay attention to what a magician is looking at—so a magician can ...

But Clark is autistic, and his mind works differently. Moments before, he’d passed a second cube around the audience and let the crowd twist it at random. Right, left, up, down, backward, forward — ...

The brain is a biological machine that makes predictions. But what happens when a wrench is thrown in the works, and jams up the ability to foresee the trajectory of a moving object, or what happens ...

Tapping into social cues to trick their audience, magicians rely on a phenomenon called joint attention. Most audience members will pay attention to what a magician is looking at—so a magician can ...