The Witch Trainer Silver game is a popular visual novel developed by Akabur. It is a fan remake of the original Witch Trainer game, which gained a significant following for its unique storyline and adult content. The Silver version of the game introduces additional features, such as improved graphics and new scenes. In Witch Trainer Silver, players assume the role of a young wizard who is tasked with training the character Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series. The game takes place during the fourth year at Hogwarts, where the player must guide Hermione through various training sessions and adventures. The gameplay revolves around building a relationship with Hermione and influencing her behavior and attitudes.
Psychologists Petter Johansson and Lars Hall, both at Lund University in Sweden, and their colleagues have applied this and other magic techniques in developing a completely novel way of addressing neuroscientific questions. They presented picture pairs of female faces to naive experimental subjects and asked the subjects to choose which face in each pair they found more attractive. On some trials the subjects were also asked to describe the reasons for their choice. Unknown to the subjects, the investigators occasionally used a sleight-of-hand technique, learned from a professional magician named Peter Rosengren, to switch one face for the other—after the subjects made their choice. Thus, for the pairs that were secretly manipulated, the result of the subject’s choice became the opposite of his or her initial intention.
Even dramatic alterations in a visual scene go unnoticed if they take place during a transient interruption such as a blink, a saccadic eye movement in which the eye quickly darts from one point to another or a flicker of the scene. The investigators found greater activation in the anterior cingulate cortex among the subjects who were watching magic tricks than among the controls.
The gameplay revolves around building a relationship with Hermione and influencing her behavior and attitudes. Players can choose different dialogue options and actions that will affect Hermione's mood and progression in the game. The game also incorporates elements of time management, as the player must balance training sessions with other activities.
Tricking the brain: how magic works
Gustav Kuhn is a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. The main focus of his research is attention and awareness and in particular how attention and eye movements are influenced by social factors. Related to this, he has a keen interest in the science of magic and use magic to investigate a wide range of cognitive mechanisms, such as attention, memory, illusions, and beliefs. Read on…
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The magician snaps his fingers and a ball disappears right in front of your eyes. How is this possible, you ask yourself? You have a pretty good understanding of how objects behave and you know from experience that objects cannot simply disappear into thin air, yet this is exactly what you see. Magic is one of the oldest art forms and since written records began, magicians have baffled and amazed their audiences by creating illusions of the impossible. While most of their tricks remain precious secrets, scientists, myself among them, have started studying magic to gain insights into how and why our minds are so easily deceived.
Magic allows you to experience the impossible. It creates a conflict between the things you think can happen and the things that you experience. While some magicians would like you to believe that they possess real magical powers, the true secret behind magic lies in clever psychological techniques that exploit limitations in the way our brains work. Many of these limitations are very counter-intuitive which is why we can experience the magical wonder of the impossible.
How? Let’s start with the basics. Vision is our most trusted sense, and influences many of our thoughts and behaviours. In fact, vision is so important that we often don’t believe things until we see them with our own eyes. But it turns out that our visual experiences are far less reliable than we intuitively think. It’s relatively easy to distort your perceptual experience and these distortions become very apparent when we look at visual illusion.
Visual illusions occur when there is a mismatch between your perceptual experience and the true state of the world. In the Müller-Lyer illusion, for example, the top line appears shorter than the bottom, although they are exactly the same length.
The visual novel aspect of the game includes beautiful 2D artwork and animated scenes that enhance the immersive experience. Players can unlock different routes and endings based on their choices throughout the game, allowing for replayability and exploration of different storylines. Witch Trainer Silver also features adult content, including explicit scenes and sexual themes. However, the game provides an option to disable adult content, making it accessible to players who prefer a non-explicit experience. Overall, Witch Trainer Silver offers a unique blend of storytelling, character development, and adult content that appeals to fans of visual novels and the Harry Potter series. With its improved graphics and expanded gameplay, the game provides an engaging and immersive experience for players..
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