The Illusionist Brain

Name: The Illusionist Brain | The Neuroscience of Magic
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The Neuroscience of Magic

Jordi Camí Luis M. Martínez(Autor*in)

Princeton University Press

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Erschienen am 7. Juni 2022

248 Seiten

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Cover
Contents
1. The Art and Science of the Impossible
The Art of the Impossible
Where We Will Go in This Book
The Grammar of Magic
Your Journey with Us
Part I: The Basics
2. Living in Illusion: The Human Brain and the Visual Pathway
We Live in Illusion
The Brain, Its Cells, and Its Structure
Neurons
Neural Networks
The Visual Pathway
The Photoreceptors: Cones and Rods
What the Brain Sees
The Beginning of Art
Color and Luminance
The "What" and "Where" Pathways
The Expression of Emotions and the Act of Seeing
3. The Conception of Reality: We Are Our Memories
Perception of the Outside World
The Creative Processes of Our Brains: Feeling, Attending, Perceiving
How the Brain's Memories Work
Sensory Memory
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Emotions
Feelings
Emotional Memories
Part II: The Mechanisms
4. We Build an Illusion of Continuity
The Limits of the Brain and the Illusion of Continuity
The Particularities of the Field of Vision
The Various Types of Scanning Movements
The Image Fusion Process
The Illusion of Continuity and Cinema
The Illusion of Continuity and Sound
The Illusion of Continuity: A More General Process
Change Blindness
Prestidigitation: Is the Hand Faster than the Eye?
Slow Magic
5. Magic and Contrast: The Key to It All
The Funny Thing about Magic
Contrast and the External Life of a Magic Effect
We See Relatively, Not Absolutely
Contrast Detectors
Contrast Depends on Context
Contrast in Magic
Avoiding or Reducing Contrast in Magic
Strategies and Resources during the Presentation of a Magic Trick
Presensory Manipulations
6. We Filter and Process Only What Is Useful to Us
The Attention Filter
Attention and Awareness
The Concept of "Misdirection" in Magic
Focal Attention
Exogenous Capture of Attention and Open Diversion
The Power of Nonverbal Communication
Managing the Gaze
Priority Movements
Endogenous Capture and Covert Deviation
Divided Attention
Temporary Control or Continuous Direction of Attention
Music as a Tool to Transmit Emotions and Synchronize Attention
Deactivation of Attention in Magic
The "Deconstruction" of a Magic Trick
7. Perceiving Is a Creative Act, but Everything Is Already in Your Brain
To Perceive Is to Interpret
The So-Called Inverse Problem of Vision
Bottlenecks in Brain Processing
The Brain Is Slow
Human Beings Anticipate the Future
Magic as the Art of the Unexpected
Developing Hypotheses Automatically: Amodal Perception in Magic
8. To Remember Is to Rebuild
The Function of Memories
Explicit (Declarative) Memories
Stages of Long-Term Memory Formation
Memories Recorded in Especially Emotional Circumstances
We Need to Forget in Order to Remember
The Reconstructive Character of Memory Evocation
False Memories
Memories and Memory Manipulation in Magic
Techniques for the Promotion of Forgetfulness in Magic
Disinformation and False Solutions in Magic
Long-Term Memories of a Magic Show
9. The Undervalued Unconscious Brain
The Brain Never Rests
Attention and Awareness
Attention without Consciousness
Unconscious Perception in Magic
Implicit Memories
Subtle Conditioning: The Case of Priming
Priming in Magic
10. The Magic of Decision-Making
The Dual Functioning of the Brain
Do We Make Expert Decisions?
Judgments in Situations of Uncertainty and Instinctive Decisions
Types of Forcing
Taking a Risk
Word Maps
The Framing Effect in Magic
Reflective Decisions
Reasoning in Hindsight in Magic
Part III: The Results
11. The Magic Experience and Its Audiences
Experiencing the Illusion of Impossibility
The Emotions of the Magic Experience
The Unwilling Suspension of Disbelief
The Magic Outcome as Cognitive Dissonance
The Validity of the Illusion of Impossibility
Magic and Superpowers
Magic in the Twenty-First Century
Is Live Magic in Front of Spectators the Best Magic?
Magic Audiences
Magic for Children
When Magic Provokes the Spectators
Magic for Magicians
The Popularity of Magic
12. Wrapping Up: Scientific Research and Magic
The Science of Magic
Is There a Scientific History Related to Magic?
How Could Magic Contribute to Neuroscience?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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