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  • Formaat: Hardback, 248 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x156 mm, 17 b/w illus. 17 QR codes.
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2022
  • Kirjastus: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691208441
  • ISBN-13: 9780691208442
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 248 pages, kõrgus x laius: 235x156 mm, 17 b/w illus. 17 QR codes.
  • Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jun-2022
  • Kirjastus: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0691208441
  • ISBN-13: 9780691208442
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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 attentionmaking us look but not seeand 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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"In The Illusionist Brain, Jordi Camí and Luis Martínez elucidate the ways the two disciplines [ psychological science and stage magic] can illuminate each other."---Matthew Hutson, Wall Street Journal "This exploration of neuroscience through the lens of magic will appeal to science-oriented readers, as it is first and foremost a deep dive into how the brain processes information. Its also sure to find an audience in anyone who has ever witnessed a magic trick and wondered how the heck it works."---Ragan O'Malley, Library Journal "[ A] tantalizing study."---Andrew Robinson, Nature "Cami and Martinez act like Morpheus, explaining in simple terms, and with compelling examples, the intricate workings of the matrix in our brain. In their book, magic acts as a trigger to learn neuroscience principles that are presented through a fascinating and refreshing viewpoint, and that should also be interesting to the lay reader not acquainted with the sorcerers guild."---Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Current Biology "Thanks to this book, readers may arrive at a deeper understanding of daily experience through the intersection of neuroscience and the magical arts. The next time thisreader fi nds himself baffled by a magic trick, reflecting on which cognitive processes were hijacked will be thrilling."---J. E. Perez, Choice Reviews

1 The Art and Science of the Impossible
1(10)
The Art of the Impossible
2(4)
Where We Will Go in This Book
6(1)
The Grammar of Magic
7(1)
Your Journey with Us
7(4)
PART I THE BASICS
11(32)
2 Living in Illusion: The Human Brain and the Visual Pathway
13(19)
We Live in Illusion
13(2)
The Brain, Its Cells, and Its Structure
15(2)
Neurons
17(1)
Neural Networks
18(2)
The Visual Pathway
20(2)
The Photoreceptors: Cones and Rods
22(2)
What the Brain Sees
24(1)
The Beginning of Art
25(1)
Color and Luminance
26(1)
The "What" and "Where" Pathways
27(3)
The Expression of Emotions and the Act of Seeing
30(2)
3 The Conception of Reality: We Are Our Memories
32(11)
Perception of the Outside World
32(1)
The Creative Processes of Our Brains: Feeling, Attending, Perceiving
33(2)
How the Brain's Memories Work
35(2)
Sensory Memory
37(1)
Short-Term Memory
38(1)
Long-Term Memory
39(1)
Emotions
39(1)
Feelings
40(1)
Emotional Memories
41(2)
PART II THE MECHANISMS
43(124)
4 We Build an Illusion of Continuity
45(14)
The Limits of the Brain and the Illusion of Continuity
45(1)
The Particularities of the Field of Vision
46(2)
The Various Types of Scanning Movements
48(1)
The Image Fusion Process
49(1)
The Illusion of Continuity and Cinema
50(1)
The Illusion of Continuity and Sound
51(1)
The Illusion of Continuity: A More General Process
52(1)
Change Blindness
52(4)
Prestidigitation: Is the Hand Faster than the Eye?
56(1)
Slow Magic
57(2)
5 Magic and Contrast: The Key to It All
59(18)
The Funny Thing about Magic
59(1)
Contrast and the External Life of a Magic Effect
60(1)
We See Relatively, Not Absolutely
61(3)
Contrast Detectors
64(2)
Contrast Depends on Context
66(3)
Contrast in Magic
69(1)
Avoiding or Reducing Contrast in Magic
70(1)
Strategies and Resources during the Presentation of a Magic Trick
71(4)
Presensory Manipulations
75(2)
6 We Filter and Process Only What Is Useful to Us
77(24)
The Attention Filter
77(1)
Attention and Awareness
78(1)
The Concept of "Misdirection" in Magic
79(1)
Focal Attention
80(1)
Exogenous Capture of Attention and Open Diversion
81(4)
The Power of Nonverbal Communication
85(1)
Managing the Gaze
86(2)
Priority Movements
88(1)
Endogenous Capture and Covert Deviation
89(1)
Divided Attention
90(5)
Temporary Control or Continuous Direction of Attention
95(2)
Music as a Tool to Transmit Emotions and Synchronize Attention
97(1)
Deactivation of Attention in Magic
98(1)
The "Deconstruction" of a Magic Trick
99(2)
7 Perceiving Is a Creative Act, but Everything Is Already in Your Brain
101(17)
To Perceive Is to Interpret
101(2)
The So-Called Inverse Problem of Vision
103(3)
Bottlenecks in Brain Processing
106(2)
The Brain Is Slow
108(3)
Human Beings Anticipate the Future
111(2)
Magic as the Art of the Unexpected
113(1)
Developing Hypotheses Automatically: Amodal Perception in Magic
114(4)
8 To Remember Is to Rebuild
118(21)
The Function of Memories
118(1)
Explicit (Declarative) Memories
119(2)
Stages of Long-Term Memory Formation
121(1)
Memories Recorded in Especially Emotional Circumstances
122(3)
We Need to Forget in Order to Remember
125(1)
The Reconstructive Character of Memory Evocation
126(2)
False Memories
128(3)
Memories and Memory Manipulation in Magic
131(1)
Techniques for the Promotion of Forgetfulness in Magic
132(1)
Disinformation and False Solutions in Magic
133(3)
Long-Term Memories of a Magic Show
136(3)
9 The Undervalued Unconscious Brain
139(10)
The Brain Never Rests
139(1)
Attention and Awareness
140(1)
Attention without Consciousness
141(1)
Unconscious Perception in Magic
142(1)
Implicit Memories
143(3)
Subtle Conditioning: The Case of Priming
146(1)
Priming in Magic
147(2)
10 The Magic of Decision-Making
149(18)
The Dual Functioning of the Brain
149(2)
Do We Make Expert Decisions?
151(1)
Judgments in Situations of Uncertainty and Instinctive Decisions
152(3)
Types of Forcing
155(3)
Taking a Risk
158(2)
Word Maps
160(2)
The Framing Effect in Magic
162(1)
Reflective Decisions
163(1)
Reasoning in Hindsight in Magic
164(3)
PART III THE RESULTS
167(34)
11 The Magic Experience and Its Audiences
169(22)
Experiencing the Illusion of Impossibility
169(1)
The Emotions of the Magic Experience
170(1)
The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief
171(1)
The Magic Outcome as Cognitive Dissonance
172(2)
The Validity of the Illusion of Impossibility
174(1)
Magic and Superpowers
175(1)
Magic in the Twenty-First Century
176(2)
Is Live Magic in Front of Spectators the Best Magic?
178(1)
Magic Audiences
178(3)
Magic for Children
181(3)
When Magic Provokes the Spectators
184(1)
Magic for Magicians
185(2)
The Popularity of Magic
187(4)
12 Wrapping Up: Scientific Research and Magic
191(10)
The Science of Magic
191(1)
Is There a Scientific History Related to Magic?
192(5)
How Could Magic Contribute to Neuroscience?
197(4)
Acknowledgments 201(2)
Notes 203(10)
Bibliography 213(14)
Index 227
Jordi Camí 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. Martínez is a neuroscientist at the Spanish National Research Council at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante.