How do magicians make us see the impossible?\u00a0The Illusionist Brain<\/i>\u00a0takes 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.<\/p>\n
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\u00ed and Luis Mart\u00ednez explore the many different ways illusionists manipulate our attention\u2014making us look but not see\u2014and take advantage of our individual predispositions and fragile memories.<\/p>\n
The Illusionist Brain<\/i>\u00a0draws on the latest findings in neuroscience to explain how magic deceives us, surprises us, and amazes us, and demonstrates how illusionists skillfully \u201chack\u201d our brains to alter how we perceive things and influence what we imagine.<\/p>\nAuteurs<\/h3>\n
Jordi Cam\u00ed is a medical doctor and professor of pharmacology at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. He is a member of the Spanish Society of Illusionism. Luis M. Mart\u00ednez is a neuroscientist at the Spanish National Research Council at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How do magicians make us see the impossible?\u00a0The Illusionist Brain\u00a0takes 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":89961,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[7148,744],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89960","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-psychologie","7":"product_cat-5-sante","8":"product_shipping_class-standard","9":"pa_auteurs-jordi-cami-luis-m-martinez","10":"pa_editeur-princeton-university-press","11":"pa_edition-decembre-2024","12":"pa_nombre-de-pages-21536","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/89960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=89960"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=89960"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.promoculture.lu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=89960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}