Books written by Susana Martinez-Conde
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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
"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 ...
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Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles
A collection of visual illusions with explanations of the science behind them, gathered from the Best Illusions of the Year contest. --
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Visual Perception Part 1: Fundamentals of Vision: Low and Mid-Level Processes in Perception
Critical-band masking of letters allows us to test the effects of covert attention on a single spatial frequency channel using a broadband stimulus. In auditory detection tasks observers are able to switch channels to avoid noise and ...
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Visual Perception Part 2: Fundamentals of Awareness, Multi-Sensory Integration and High-Order Perception
The naming of a colored scene, relative to a grayscale scene image, was faster if it belonged to a category from which the colors ... (2005), who have observed an Event-Related Potential (ERP) frontal signal 150 ms after image onset (a ...
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Visual Perception Part 1: Fundamentals of Vision: Low and Mid-Level Processes in Perception
This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. Each section addresses one of the main topics in vision research today.
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Visual Perception Part 2: Fundamentals of Awareness, Multi-Sensory Integration and High-Order Perception
This book presents a collection of articles reflecting state-of-the-art research in visual perception, specifically concentrating on neural correlates of perception. Each section addresses one of the main topics in vision research today.
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Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains
Leading neuroscientists Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde meet with magicians from all over the world to explain how the magician's art sheds light on consciousness, memory, attention, and belief.
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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
"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 ...
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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Brains
'One of the best books I've read on how the brain actually works' WIlliam Leith, Evening StandardFull of secrets behind classic tricks and fascinating cutting-edge research, Sleights of Mind takes you backstage to see what the magic reveals ...
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Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles
A full-color celebration of stunning visual illusions and the science behind them In Champions of Illusion, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik present a smorgasbord of mystifying images, many selected from their Best Illusion of the ...