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First edition, 2017

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Martinez-Conde, S. (Susana) | Macknik, Stephen L.

Title: Champions of illusion : the science behind mind-boggling images and mystifying brain puzzles / Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik.

Description: First edition. | New York : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017002594 | eISBN 978-0-374-71839-8

Subjects: LCSH: Optical illusions.

Classification: LCC QP495 .M37 2017 | DDC 612.8/4—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002594

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Some of the content in this book has appeared previously in Scientific American and Scientific American Mind, and on the authors’ Illusion Chasers blog.

Frontispiece courtesy of Jorge Otero-Millan