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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2015-04-01
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Series: | i-Perception |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1068/i0719sas |