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	Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions by Stephen L. Macknik (Goodreads Author), Susana Martinez-Conde (Goodreads Author) , Sandra Blakeslee 3.94 avg rating — 2,352 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Champions of Illusion: The Science Behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles by Susana Martinez-Conde (Goodreads Author), Stephen L. Macknik (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Progress in Brain Research, Volume 154: Visual Perception, Part 1: Fundamentals of Vision: Low and Mid-Level Processes in Perception by Susana Martinez-Conde (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen L. Macknik (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Maria M. Martinez (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Progress in Brain Research, Volume 155: Visual Perception, Part 2: Fundamentals of Awareness, Multi-Sensory Integration and High-Order Perception by Susana Martinez-Conde (Goodreads Author), Stephen L. Macknik (Goodreads Author) , Maria M. Martinez it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Stephen L. said: " Thanks to Jorge-Otero-Millan for the outstanding cover art! We’re also so very grateful to our beloved Illusion contestants who succeed in pushing the limits of reality every year with their amazing new illusions! "

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“Chronic multitaskers “are suckers for irrelevancy,” says Stanford communications professor Clifford Nass. “Everything distracts them.” They can’t ignore things, can’t remember as well, and have weaker self-control.”
― Stephen L. Macknik, Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains

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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Stephen L. Macknik, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

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“Magic tricks work because humans have a hardwired process of attention and awareness that is hackable.”
― Stephen L. Macknik, Sleights of Mind: What the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains

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