Imaging the impossible: An fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks
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Imaging the impossible: An fMRI study of impossible causal relationships in magic tricks☆
Understanding causal relationships and violations of those relationships is fundamental to learning about the world around us. Over time some of these relationships become so firmly established that they form part of an implicit belief system about what is possible and impossible in the world. Previous studies investigating the neural correlates of violations of learned relationships have focus...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: NeuroImage
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1053-8119
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.036