The Illusionist Brain : : The Neuroscience of Magic / / Jordi Camí, Luis M. Martínez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Camí, Jordi,; Martínez, Luis M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 17 b/w illus. 17 QR codes.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 The Art and Science of the Impossible --; PART I. The Basics --; 2 Living in Illusion --; 3 The Conception of Reality: We Are Our Memories --; PART II The Mechanisms --; 4 We Build an Illusion of Continuity --; 5 Magic and Contrast: The Key to It All --; 6 We Filter and Process Only What Is Useful to Us --; 7 Perceiving Is a Creative Act, but Everything Is Already in Your Brain --; 8 To Remember Is to Rebuild --; 9 The Undervalued Unconscious Brain --; 10 The Magic of Decision-Making --; PART III The Results --; 11 The Magic Experience and Its Audiences --; 12 Wrapping Up: Scientific Research and Magic --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691239156; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993196; 9783110993134; 9783110749731
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691239156?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jordi Camí, Luis M. Martínez.

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow 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.