The Illusionist Brain The Neuroscience Jordi Camí Hardcover

Description: Title: The Illusionist Brain: The Neuroscience of Magic Author: Camí, Jordi Publisher: Princeton University Press Binding: Hardcover Pages: 248 Dimensions: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d Product Weight: 1.2 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780691208442 How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze us How do magicians make us see the impossible? The Illusionist Brain takes you on an unforgettable journey through the inner workings of the human mind, revealing how magicians achieve their spectacular and seemingly impossible effects by interfering with your cognitive processes. Along the way, this lively and informative book provides a guided tour of modern neuroscience, using magic as a lens for understanding the unconscious and automatic functioning of our brains. We construct reality from the information stored in our memories and received through our senses, and our brains are remarkably adept at tricking us into believing that our experience is continuous. In fact, our minds create our perception of reality by elaborating meanings and continuities from incomplete information, and while this strategy carries clear benefits for survival, it comes with blind spots that magicians know how to exploit. Jordi Camí and Luis Martínez explore the many different ways illusionists manipulate our attention--making us look but not see--and take advantage of our individual predispositions and fragile memories. The Illusionist Brain draws on the latest findings in neuroscience to explain how magic deceives us, surprises us, and amazes us, and demonstrates how illusionists skillfully "hack" our brains to alter how we perceive things and influence what we imagine.   Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}

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Book Title: Illusionist Brain : the Neuroscience of Magic

Number of Pages: 248 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Publication Year: 2022

Topic: Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Magic

Item Height: 1 in

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Games & Activities, Science, Psychology

Item Weight: 16.2 Oz

Item Length: 9.5 in

Author: Jordi Camí, Luis M. Martínez

Item Width: 6.3 in

Format: Hardcover