{"product_id":"hidden-picture-puzzles-isbn-9781623540388","title":"Hidden Picture Puzzles","description":"A picture tells a thousand words . . . or does it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese diverse puzzles each illustrate a different form of illusion. There’s even a crossword puzzle grid with a hiding place tucked inside. The accompanying captions explain the visual and psychological processes that allow these illusions to work—and make them endlessly compelling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach beautiful picture puzzle contains a mystery: hidden or camouflaged figures that play tricks on your eyes. Some may blend into the background. One image may conceal another. Even though our brain tries to pinpoint and focus on the richly detailed designs, it just can’t. And because of their complexity, these illusions fascinate our eyes, stimulate our minds, and expand our imagination.Gianni A. Sarcone is a passionate author, inventor and designer with more than twenty years of experience in the fields of visual creativity, recreational mathematics, and educational games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis artworks and feature articles on educational topics and creative thinking are published and syndicated in magazines, newspapers, and books. Sarcone has written several books in English, French, German, and Italian on brain games, critical thinking, and on the mechanism of vision. He is cofounder, editor and webmaster of the Archimedes’ Lab Project, a consulting network of experts specializing in developing creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsidered a leading authority on visual perception by academic institutions, Gianni A. Sarcone was a juror at the Third Annual \"Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest\" held in Sarasota, Florida (USA). His optical illusion project ‘Mask of Love’ was named in the top ten best optical illusions in the \"2011 Best Illusion of the Year Contest\" held in Naples, Florida.“Finding is just a process of retrieving something that is already there.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Sigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePreamble\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e             The theme of loss is recurrent in our dreams: we lose the train, people, the path, and even our balance… And our biggest concern throughout the course of the dream is to seek, to find what has been lost. This anxiety over loss, and the desire to make up for what has been lost, is nothing more than the fear of the dissolution of our identity. So, finding what is hidden reassures us and brings us a fundamental pleasure that goes beyond mere intellectual achievement and satisfaction.\u003cbr\u003e             Finding the\u003ci\u003e latent\u003c\/i\u003e image hidden in the \u003ci\u003emanifest\u003c\/i\u003e image is a mental process related to the concept of the lost object used in psychoanalysis. Finding the object “is just a process of retrieving something that is already there,” asserted Freud in his work “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHidden figures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e             In this book we will play hide and seek with hidden and camouflaged figures. In nature, camouflage is a visual “noise,” usually made from line or dot patterns that enable creatures to blend in with their surroundings and become imperceptible to predators. Since antiquity, human beings too have tried to camouflage themselves or their properties in order to dupe human predators, such as thieves, spies, soldiers, and so on.\u003cbr\u003e             Some hidden-figure illusions involve the figure-ground phenomenon, which refers to the human ability to separate figures or foreground information from a surrounding background or “noise,” which requires a complicated perceptual process by the brain. In your visual field, the main figure and the background actually share the same contour but the brain considers only one field, neglecting the other as being a negative space or an interspace.","brand":"Imagine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302613242085,"sku":"NP9781623540388","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781623540388.jpg?v=1767729016","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/hidden-picture-puzzles-isbn-9781623540388","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}