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This 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.

Cognition in children. --- Visual perception in children. --- Folklore. --- Optical illusions.

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Henry Glassie (b. 1941) is a folklorist and distinguished college Professor Emeritus of folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, whose work has significantly shaped humanistic and social scientific thinking on several interrelated subjects, including folklore, material culture, history, and art. A member of the American Folklore Society since 1964, Glassie was elected a fellow of the society in 1976 and served as its president from 1988 to 1990. He served as chairman of renowned departments of folklore both at Indiana University (1973, 1988-1990) and Pennsylvania University (1976-1980). He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 and was awarded the Haskens Prize by the American Council for Learned Societies in 2011. He won the Chicago Folklore Prize (1983), and three of his books have been named to The ...

Anthropology. --- Geography. --- History.