Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (740 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312611676 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 291 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fun read of magicians teaching neuroscientists how our vision/attention/mind works. 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 a magic fan nor a neuroscience fan when I started this book, but I am now! I learned why, when I edit my writing, I miss so many errors. I don't see them! My. "The spoiler sections are an attempt to comply with the magician’s code (the neuroscientist authors became magicians themselves)" according to Bernie Gourley. 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 demarcate the beginnings and endings of spoiler sections that explicitly explain tricks. This allows a reader to skip over such sections if one doesn’t . "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 able to comprehend it without difficulty. For example, I have a Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work and I had no difficulty with the concepts. The useful
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. 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. Fun and accessible, Sleights of Mind is "a tour through consciousness, attention, and deception via the marriage of professional magic and cognitive neuroscience" (Vanessa Schipani, The Scientist).
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.. Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at BNI. Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Bar
This book doesn't just 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.“I've long wished that there was a book that explained the art of magic from the point of view of cognitive neuroscience. They aren't content to just conduct elegant experiments (although they do plenty of those, too). “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 ma