Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805092811 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sandra Blakeslee is a regular contributor to "Science Times" at The New York Times who specializes in the brain sciences, and the author of several books.. Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Ph
The implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating our behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education. "This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfieldit 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. Magic tricks fool us because humans have hardwired processes of attention and awareness that are hackablea good magician uses your mind's own intrinsic properties against you in a form of mental jujitsu. Now magic can reveal how our brains work in everyday situations. For instance, if you've ever bought an expensive item you'd sworn you'd never buy, the salesperson was probably a master at creating the "illusion of choice," a core technique of magic. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. Sleights of Mind makes neuroscience fun and accessible by unveiling the key connections between magic and the mind.
Fun read of magicians teaching neuroscientists how our vision/attention/mind works. Veda Dalsette You'd think magicians could learn a thing or two from neuroscientists, but this book is all about how two neuroscientists are learning what to study and why from professional magicians. Sleights of Mind is a fun layman's read of how our vision works and how our minds interpret what we see. I wasn't. The spoiler sections are an attempt to comply with the magician’s code (the neuroscientist authors became magicians themselves) Sleights of Mind explains magic tricks by telling one about the shortcuts, limits, and programming of brain (and attendant sensory systems) that facilitate such tricks. The reader needn’t be concerned that the book will spoil all the illusionists’ secrets for one. The authors carefully . "Perception is Everything & This Book Explains Why & How" according to Darth Rater. A well-presented treatise on how neuro-science is revealing the how and why we perceive our surroundings as we do. If you are interested in Psychology, Neurology, and Psychiatry, you will find this book interesting. This is not a medical text, so, the average student of the mind-sciences should be
They both take seemingly inexplicable events and provide elegantly simple answers that enthrall the observer. Instead, they're determined to explore those places where neuroscience intersects the mysterious and the magical, from visual illusions to Vegas card tricks. In this exciting book Stephen, Susana, and Sandra explore what magic and illusions can teach us about our fallible human nature--coming up with novel and fascinating observations.” Dan Ariely, author of Predictability Irrational“Steve and Susana are two of the most innovative scientists I know. It explains how they've investigated the tricks of some of the world's greatest magicians to find out how the brain works in everyday situations. This book doesn't just change the way you think about sleight of hand