Never Repeat the Same Trick Twice—Unless it is Cognitively Impenetrable
In their quest for creating magical experiences, magicians rely on a host of psychological factors. Here, we compare tricks based on attentional misdirection with tricks based on amodal completion. Based on the notion that amodal completion is a cognitively impenetrable perceptual phenomenon, we pre...
Main Authors: | Vebjørn Ekroll, Evy De Bruyckere, Lotte Vanwezemael, Johan Wagemans |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2018-12-01
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Series: | i-Perception |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669518816711 |
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