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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超越技巧：魔法的科学与比较认知


魔法是一种几个世纪以来一直让人类着迷的艺术形式。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，重点关注魔术技术利用的感知盲点和认知障碍。最近，这项调查为一条新的研究路线提供了途径，该研究使用魔法效果来探索非人类动物的认知能力。魔法科学研究的这个新分支已经产生了新的证据，说明了魔法效果作为非人类动物的心理工具的力量。这篇评论旨在通过批判性地说明这两个研究领域最突出的作品，全面概述人类和非人类对魔法效果的感知的研究。