Magic Touch

Magic is all about managing expectations. A good magician knows when and where the audience will be looking and — poof! — does the mechanics of the trickery elsewhere.Despite the impressive stories of people with autism being able to spot fine details, however, they are surprisingly susceptible to a magic trick called the ‘vanishing ball illusion,’ according to a study published in October in Psychological Science.Read more at...SFARI, November 2010.