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A Trick of the Mind: How the Brain Invents Your Reality

byDaniel Yon

Cognitive neuroscientist Daniel Yon explains that perception is not a passive recording of the outside world. The brain continually combines sensory signals with expectations, memories, and prior beliefs to construct the reality we experience. Through visual illusions, bodily sensations, social judgments, and other revealing cases, Yon shows how this predictive machinery usually helps us navigate uncertainty but can also lead us astray. The book offers an accessible tour of contemporary perception science while asking a larger question: if experience is partly invented by the mind, how can we become more aware of—and sometimes revise—the assumptions shaping what feels real?

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Publication date

2025

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781538725207