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

Author:
Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde with Sandra Blakeslee
Publisher:
Henry Holt & Co.
Reviewed in:
Fall 2010
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Macknik and Martinez-Conde are the founders of a new discipline, neuromagic. They have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to reveal their techniques for tricking the brain. They traveled the world to find out how magic and its ancient principles can now be explained using the latest discoveries of cognitive neuroscience.