Phantom Vanish magic trick: Investigating the disappearance of a non-existent object in a dynamic scene.

Drawing inspiration from sleight-of-hand magic tricks, we developed an experimental paradigm to investigate whether magicians’ misdirection techniques could be used to induce the misperception of ‘phantom’ objects. While previous experiments investigating sleight-of-hand magic tricks have focused on...

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Main Authors: Matthew L Tompkins, Andy T Woods, Anne M Aimola Davies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00950/full