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World Service,1 min

Do we see what we think we see?

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How are magicians able to fool us? Gustav Kuhn, a cognitive psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, explains why card tricks aren't really magic - we're just not seeing what we think we're seeing. Picture: Poker hand, Credit: Barnaby Perkins/BBC

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