Magic is an art form that has fascinated humans for centuries. Recently, the techniques used by magicians to make their audience experience the impossible have attracted the attention of psychologists, who, in just a couple of decades, have produced a large amount of research regarding how these effects operate, focusing on the blind spots in perception and roadblocks in cognition that magic techniques exploit. Most recently, this investigation has given a pathway to a new line of research that uses magic effects to explore the cognitive abilities of nonhuman animals. This new branch of the scientific study of magic has already yielded new evidence illustrating the power of magic effects as a psychological tool for nonhuman animals. This review aims to give a thorough overview of the research on both the human and nonhuman perception of magic effects by critically illustrating the most prominent works of both fields of inquiry.

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超越魔术：魔术的科学与比较认知


魔术是一种艺术形式，几个世纪以来一直让人类着迷。最近，魔术师用来让观众体验不可能的技术引起了心理学家的注意，他们在短短几十年内就这些效果如何运作进行了大量研究，重点关注感知盲点以及魔法技术所利用的认知障碍。最近，这项调查为利用魔法效果探索非人类动物的认知能力的新研究提供了途径。魔法科学研究的这个新分支已经产生了新的证据，说明魔法效果作为非人类动物的心理工具的力量。这篇综述旨在通过批判性地阐释两个研究领域最杰出的作品，全面概述人类和非人类对魔法效果的感知研究。