Sleights Of Mind by Stephen L. Macknik
What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
This engaging exploration reveals how stage magicians exploit the brain’s perceptual and attentional blind spots to create compelling illusions, and what those tricks teach us about how the mind actually works. Drawing on lab experiments and collaborations with master illusionists, it breaks down misdirection, change blindness, memory distortions, and the limits of awareness. Along the way, it connects these cognitive quirks to everyday life—from marketing and politics to pickpocketing and con games—showing why we’re so easily deceived and how to better guard our attention.
- Published
- 2010
- Nationality
- American
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- Pages
- 300-320
- Original Language
- English
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