University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2023 Aug;85(6):1768-1776. doi: 10.3758/s13414-023-02776-4. Epub 2023 Aug 29.
In the "classic" vanishing ball illusion (VBI), a magician pretends to throw a ball and the audience sees it go up and then disappear. To gain a better understanding of the mechanisms involved, we conducted two experiments to analyze the permeability of this type of illusion to auditory information. A modified version of the VBI (i.e., the Vanishing Coin Illusion [VCI]), was presented, and this was either accompanied by a sound or was not. The results show that the presence of a sound adds to the success of the illusion (Experiment 1), especially when this sound is congruent with the illusion (Experiment 2). Based on these results, we discuss the mechanisms at work in this illusion.
在“经典”消失球错觉（VBI）中，魔术师假装扔球，观众看到球上升然后消失。为了更好地理解其中涉及的机制，我们进行了两项实验来分析这种错觉对听觉信息的渗透性。呈现了一种修改后的 VBI（即消失硬币错觉[VCI]），并且该错觉要么伴有声音，要么没有。结果表明，声音的存在增加了错觉的成功率（实验 1），尤其是当声音与错觉一致时（实验 2）。基于这些结果，我们讨论了这种错觉中起作用的机制。
