Against Better Knowledge: The Magical Force of Amodal Volume Completion

In a popular magic routine known as “multiplying billiard balls”, magicians fool their audience by using an empty shell that the audience believes to be a complete ball. Here, we present some observations suggesting that the spectators do not merely entertain the intellectual belief that the balls a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vebjørn Ekroll, Bilge Sayim, Johan Wagemans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-12-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0622sas