Thomas Boguszewski’s Reviews > Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions > Status Update

A pair of neuroscientists investigate how magic tricks (which they call "the art of manipulating attention and cognition" and "mental jujitsu") hack our mind's natural pattern-making structures, and in doing so, shine a light on how our whole perception of the world is really more like a projection of our imagination onto data. Each chapter goes over a different set of illusions, biases, etc that are active in magic