Description
Book SynopsisThis cross-disciplinary book draws from folklore, neuroscience, and psychology to offer a detailed look at the ways children play with perception, creating what authors K. Brandon Barker and Claiborne Rice call folk illusions.
Trade ReviewThis book explores much deeper issues of psychology and even deeper neurology. Just when we thought we knew everything there is to know about our own bodies and their responses, we can have new and surprising experiences engendered by simple little tricks. This learned, encyclopedic, and well-referenced examination fully realizes the authors' aim of establishing these phenomena as a genre of folklore in its own right.
-- Janet E. Alton * Folklore *
Throughout the book, Barker and Rice make a compelling argument not only for the inclu-sion of folk illusions as its own genre, but also for interdisciplinary research to explore issues of perception and belief.
-- Mintzi Auanda Martínez-Rivera * Journal of American Folklore *
Table of ContentsPreface: Zane's Illusion
Acknowledgements
Accessing Audiovisual Materials
1. Everyone Knows that Seeing is (not always) Believing
2. Four Forms of Folk Illusions
3. Folk Illusions and the Social Activation of Embodiment
4. Folk Illusions and Active Perception
5. Folk Illusions and the Weight of the World
6. Folk Illusions and the Face in the Mirror or The Boundaries of a Genre
7. Folk Illusions, Development, and Body Acquisition
Appendix: Catalog of Folk Illusions
Bibliography
Index
