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Fun and accessible, sleights of mind is a tour through consciousness, attention, and deception via the marriage of professional magic and cognitive neuroscience vanessa schipani, the scientist. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Apr 01, 2011 sleights of mind is an extension of this, and in the book they declare themselves the founders of a new discipline they call neuromagic. This edition was created and published by global grey globalgrey 2018. Sleights of mind what the neuroscience of magic reveals.
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