Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805092811 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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Macknik, Ph.D., is Director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. 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
The authors have done an admirable job in exploring this idea and also suggest ways in which the two disciplines can cross fertilize each other.” VS Ramachandran MD PhD, author of Phantoms in the Brain“Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde's Sleights of Mind gives non-magicians a real up-close look at the true secrets of magic. Magic is a goldmine of information about the brain, as well as a source of fascination to laypeople. It's a great read whether you're passionate about brain science, magic, or both!” Odyssey Magazine (Editor's Choice). Science and magic have much in common. 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. “Magic is the place
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 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 mind is conjuring up what the words are supposed to be, because that's how our minds have evolved to be more efficient. We have a limited range of focus when we . The spoiler sections are an attempt to comply with the magician’s code (the neuroscientist authors became magicians themselves) 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 want to know the trick. I suspect few readers do skip the spoiler sections because that’s where the rubber meets the road in terms of the neuroscientific co. Perception is Everything & This Book Explains Why & How 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 novelty of this book is that the authors recognized how the profession of magical-entertainment is all about tricking the perceptions of the audience. So, by brin
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. 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. This book is the result of the authors' yearlong, world-wide exploration of magic and how its principles apply to our behavior. "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. 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. Sleights of Mind makes neuroscience fun and accessible by unveiling the key connections between magic and the mind.