| Title |
The Magic Grasp: Motor Expertise in Deception
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, February 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0016568 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Cristiana Cavina-Pratesi, Gustav Kuhn, Magdalena Ietswaart, A. David Milner |
| Abstract |
Most of us are poor at faking actions. Kinematic studies have shown that when pretending to pick up imagined objects (pantomimed actions), we move and shape our hands quite differently from when grasping real ones. These differences between real and pantomimed actions have been linked to separate brain pathways specialized for different kinds of visuomotor guidance. Yet professional magicians regularly use pantomimed actions to deceive audiences. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 50% |
| Italy | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 2 | 2% |
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 32% |
| Researcher | 15 | 14% |
| Professor | 13 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 21 | 20% |
| Unknown | 7 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 62 | 60% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Engineering | 4 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 17 | 16% |
| Unknown | 8 | 8% |