Here’s the big secret magicians having been keeping under their (top) hats:

They don’t fool you, you fool yourself.

Or, to be more accurate, your brain fools you.

Deceptology isn’t just a magic show; it's an extraordinary journey into the psychological and neuroscientific principles that make illusions possible.

Students will have their brains hacked by principles including:

Change blindness
Gestalt pattern perception
The motion aftereffect
Memory errors
Visual stimuli processing errors

Created in cooperation with psychologists and neuroscientists from around the world, Deceptology is part magic show, part exposé and part psychology lesson.

Special thank to The Martinez-Conde Laboratory, Centre for Excellence For Integrative Brain Function, Monash University and Swinburne University for their assistance in the development of Deceptology.