Daniel Yon A TRICK OF THE MIND with Sofya Donets

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Thu Nov 27 2025 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

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Blackwell's Bookshop | Oxford, EN

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How does your brain decide what it's seeing, from the physical world to other people? Daniel Yon takes a closer look with this new book.
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A Trick of the Mind

How does your brain decide what it's seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems.
The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality that you live in.
In this book Daniel Yon takes the research one step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people and the beliefs you form about yourself. With transformative applications for how we engage with other communities and approach mental illness, A Trick of The Mind will revolutionise the way you think.

Daniel Yon

Daniel Yon is an experimental psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of Birkbeck, London, where he studies how our brains build models of ourselves and the world around us, and how those models shape our perceptions, actions and decisions. He has written on these subjects for Aeon and Psyche and has been published in a number of his field’s leading journals

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Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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