Explanations of a magic trick across the life span
Studying how children and adults explain magic tricks can reveal developmental differences in cognition. We showed 167 children (aged 4 to 13 years) a video of a magician making a pen vanish and asked them to explain the trick. Although most claimed to know the secret, none of them correctly identif...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-03-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Psychology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00219/full |