Rate My Professor Anthony Barnhart

Barnhart has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. Key publications include "Identifying the boundaries of magic: A qualitative study of expert magicians" (The Journal of Performance Magic, 2025), "Tactical blinking in magicians: A tool for self- and other-deception" (Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2022), "Avoiding potential pitfalls in visual search and eye-movement experiments: A tutorial review" (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021), "Microsaccades reflect the dynamics of misdirected attention in magic" (Journal of Eye Movement Research, 2019), "Blinded by magic: Eye-movements reveal the misdirection of attention" (Frontiers in Psychology, 2014), "Orthographic and phonological neighborhood effects in handwritten word perception" (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2015), and "Interpreting chicken-scratch: Lexical access for handwritten words" (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010). In 2025, he published three additional papers: one on magic's aesthetic boundaries in The Journal of Performance Magic, one on magician personalities in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, and a commentary critiquing perceptual theory in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. His scholarly impact is recognized by his election as a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society in 2020 and an NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant in 2017 for acquiring an eye-tracking system ($37,190). Barnhart has delivered a keynote address at the American Psychological Association Convention (2020) and numerous invited lectures worldwide on magic, perception, and psychological science. He contributed as a consultant and teacher to the book Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about our Everyday Deceptions (2010).