The Put-and-Fetch Ambiguity: How Magicians Exploit the Principle of Exclusive Allocation of Movements to Intentions

In many magic tricks, magicians fool their audience by performing a mock action (a so-called “ruse”), which merely serves the purpose of providing a seemingly natural explanation for visible movements that are actually part of the secret move they want to hide from the audience. Here, we discuss a s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sander Van de Cruys, Johan Wagemans, Vebjørn Ekroll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-04-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1068/i0719sas