American neuroscientist and science writer

Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.

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Stephen Macknik

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Sleights of mind : what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our everyday deceptions / Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde ; with Sandra Blakeslee.