Why Surprises Temporarily Blind Us

[Houdini]

“Reading this story requires you to willfully pay attention to the sentences and to tune out nearby conversations, the radio and other distractions. But if a fire alarm sounded, your attention would be involuntarily snatched away from the story to the blaring sound.New research from Vanderbilt University reveals for the first time how our brains [...]

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[lag]

Interesting! this is very much how misdirection works i guess. an idea just popped out to me.

supposed a magician invites a spectator on stage and performs a trick that surprises the spectator. meanwhile, he then do something to the spectator that enables him to perform a second trick which only the spectator is oblivious to but not to the rest of the audience. something like slydini's ball over head (not sure if my spelling is correct)