Sleights of Mind What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

Name: Sleights of Mind What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
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ISBN: 9780805092813

ISBN-10: 0805092811

ISBN-13: 9780805092813

Edition: 2010

Authors: Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee, Stephen L. Macknik

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"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield'”it will also change the way you think about the mind." '”Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was A Neuroscientist Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the brain. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackable'”a good…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 11/9/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

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Introduction



The Woman in the Chameleon Dress: Visual Illusions and Magic



The Secret of the Bending Spoon: Why Magicians Watch Their Angles



The Brother Who Faked a Dome: Visual Illusions in Art and Science



Welcome to the Show but Please Leave On Your Blinders: Cognitive Illusions



The Gorilla in Your Midst: More Cognitive Illusions



The Ventriloquist's Secret: Multisensory Illusions



The Indian Rope Trick: Memory Illusions



Expectation and Assumption: How Magicians Make ASSes of U and ME



May the Force Be with You: The Illusion of Choice



Why Magic Wands Work: Illusory Correlations, Superstition, Hypnosis, and Flimflam



The Magic Castle



Will the Magic Go Away?


Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index