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Busker Performs Eye-Opening 'Impossible' Trick
- Published_at:2013-01-22
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:pekiNasil
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- description: A Japanese busker is performing a trick so dazzling it defies science. Hiro-Pon, of Japanese double act Gamarjobat, who is performing in Christchurch this week as part of the World Buskers Festival, has a trick where he can move each eye independently like a chameleon. The trick caught the eye of leading Kiwi brain researcher Michael MacAskill when he saw the act in Christchurch a couple of years ago. He believed it was neurologically impossible, so he took the performer into a laboratory to record and analyse the eye movements. His findings helped disprove a 19th-century scientific theory, known as Hering's law, that states both eyes move in unison and that this is hardwired into the brain. "This was a bizarre case where someone was able to do something that we previously thought was impossible," MacAskill said. "He is breaking that law in a very subtle way and shows there is a way to break that circuitry. It is an important discovery in a very arcane field. "In essence, our eyes can be a bit more independent and chameleon-like than we thought." His findings were published in a leading medical journal, Neurology. Hiro-Pon was surprised at the scientific significance of his trick. "That is a surprise. Wow. But it is so easy for me,'' he said. ''I don't know why the scientist was so interested because everybody can do this, I think."
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