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

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

Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee, Stephen L. Macknik, Lloyd James

10 hours, 5 minutes • first pub 2010 (view editions)

nonfiction psychology science adventurous informative slow-paced
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Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses...

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