名詞: n.
the study of the neuroscience behind magic tricks and illusions

A couple of years ago, Teller joined a coterie of illusionists and tricksters recruited by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, to look at the neuroscience of magic. Last summer, that work culminated in an article for the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience called "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic." Teller was one of the coauthors, and its publication was a signal event in a field some researchers are calling magicology, the mining of stage illusions for insights into brain function.
—Jonah Lehrer, "Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion," Wired, April 20, 2009

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The word magicology has been around for a while in various guises, so what I'm highlighting here is a new sense of the word. Of the old senses, "the study of magic tricks and illusions" is the most common, and it dates to about 1970. Other senses include "the anthropological study of magic as a supernatural power" (1966) and "the use of magic to detect disease," which is the earliest sense I could find:

A fellow with a foreign name, claiming to have come from the old "Paradise of Quacks," London, circulates in San Francisco a newspaper filled with a great variety of miscellaneous reading, and containing in one corner his private advertisement as a fortune teller, &c. He offers to read the paste, present, and future, and to detect disease through "Magicology!"
—"An Impostor Who Should be in the State Prison," Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal v. 19, 1877

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