商品簡介
Have you ever wondered how a magician saws a woman in half? Or makes coins materialize out of thin air? Or reads your mind? Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable. A good magician uses your mind's intrinsic properties against you, in a form of mental jujitsu, to fool you every time, even when you know full well that you are being tricked.
Now Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, the founders of the exciting new discipline of neuromagic, have convinced some of the world's greatest magicians to reveal their techniques for tricking the brain. This fascinating book is the result of the authors' multiyear, worldwide exploration of magic and how its ancient principles can now be explained using the latest discoveries of cognitive neuroscience.
The secrets behind magic tricks reveal how your brain works not just when watching a magic show but in everyday situations. For instance, if you've found yourself paying for an expensive item you'd sworn you'd never buy, the salesperson was probably a master at creating the "illusion of choice," a core technique of magic. If you ever invested money with someone like Bernie Madoff, you fell prey to "the illusion of trust." And the implications of neuromagic go beyond illuminating your behavior; early research points to new approaches for everything from the diagnosis of autism to marketing techniques and education. By popping the hood on your brain as you are suckered in by sleights of hand, Macknik and Martinez-Conde unveil the key connections between magic and the mind and along the way make neuroscience more exciting and accessible than ever before.
作者簡介
Stephen L. Macknik, Ph.D., is the director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.
Susana Martinez-Conde, Ph.D., is the director of the Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience at BNL
Drs. Madmik and Martinez-Conde are members of the Academy of Magical Arts (aka the Magic Castle in Hollywood), the Magic Circle (UK), the Society of American Magicians, and the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Sandra Lakeslee, who specializes in the brain sciences, is a regular contributor to the Science Times section of The New York Times and the author of several books.
