Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde Sandra Blakeslee

Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions



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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde Sandra Blakeslee
Language: English
Page: 304
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0312611676, 9780312611675
Publisher: Picador

"Sleights of Mind makes brain science so much fun, you’ll swear the authors are as clever as Houdini."—Scientific American Book Club

"Magic is the place where our senses and beliefs fail us in magnificent ways. 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

Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was A Neuroscientist.

Steven Pinker PhD, author of The Stuff of Thought

VS Ramachandran MD PhD, author of Phantoms in the Brain

Sleights of Mind gives non-magicians a real up-close look at the true secrets of magic. They are revealing the real knowledge jealously guarded by all great performers...I know my fellow magicians are all going to be as jazzed as I am to read about how sophisticated magical techniques and state-of-the-art brain science combine."—Mac King, headliner, Harrah's Las Vegas

Sleights of Mind, authors Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde persistently remind us that the human mind is a bad data-taking device. And it's this fact that enables the science of magic to exist at all."—Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of The Pluto Files

"The authors make easily comprehensible the effects of neural adaptation, afterimages, occlusion, perspective, saccades, inattentional blindness, expectations and the pliability of memory...Entertaining."--Kirkus

Science News

Science Book News

"If you want to learn more about "neuromagic," take a peek at Macknik and Martinez-Conde's most recent book. 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. It's a great read whether you're passionate about brain science, magic, or both!"--Odyssey Magazine (Editor's Choice)

Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at BNI. 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.

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