Magic and Perception The Art and Science of Fooling the Senses |
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| Illustrator:
| Eisenberg, Linda |
| Author:
| Friedhoffer, Bob |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7906-2865-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2018 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $10.99 |
Book Description:
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An excerpt from CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS PERCEPTION? When I first started doing magic tricks, I thought it was awesome that I could fool people. I could do things they couldn't do. Not only couldn't they do them, but they also couldn't figure out how to do them. Being the nosy kind of guy I am, I wanted to know how and why people get fooled. If I knew that, I thought, maybe I'd become a better magician. So I started studying different things, both in school and out-things such...
More DescriptionAn excerpt from CHAPTER ONE: WHAT IS PERCEPTION?
When I first started doing magic tricks, I thought it was awesome that I could fool people. I could do things they couldn't do. Not only couldn't they do them, but they also couldn't figure out how to do them.
Being the nosy kind of guy I am, I wanted to know how and why people get fooled. If I knew that, I thought, maybe I'd become a better magician. So I started studying different things, both in school and out-things such as acting, stagecraft, and the history of magic and science.
It dawned on me, after a while, that there are many scientific reasons for why magic fools people. Some of them have to do with laws of physics, which I've discussed at length in some of my other books. Others are based on principles of chemistry and biology, which I've touched on in other books. But quite a few of the reasons have to do with the science of the mind, better known as psychology, and the science of the brain, neurology. These are the areas this book concentrates on.