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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 Cam and Luis Martnez explore the many different ways illusionists manipulate our attention 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
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