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A Trick of the Mind by Daniel Yon review – explaining psychology’s most important theory

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75% Informative

Daniel Yon’s A Trick of the Mind is just the latest popularisation of these ideas.

He makes an excellent guide, both as a scientist working at the leading edge of this field and as a writer of great clarity.

The phenomenon we call “seeing” is the result of a continuously updated model in your mind, made up partly of incoming sensory information, but partly of pre-existing expectations.

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