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

by Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, Sandra Blakeslee

Book Overview

"This book doesn't just promise to change the way you think about sleight of hand and David Copperfield--it will also change the way you think about the mind." --Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was A Neuroscientist Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to allow scientists to study their techniques for tricking the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805092811
• ISBN13: 9780805092813
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"