Möbius Band Surprise: A Systematic Illusion in Imagery

When a Möbius loop is cut along the middle of the band, the result is a single connected loop, yet anecdotal evidence from science demonstrations and the use of this effect in magic tricks suggest that most people are thoroughly surprised by this because they strongly believe that the result should...

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Autores principales: Haugland, Mons Daniel, Pearson, David G., Ekroll, Vebjørn
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8040567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33889381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20416695211004972
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description When a Möbius loop is cut along the middle of the band, the result is a single connected loop, yet anecdotal evidence from science demonstrations and the use of this effect in magic tricks suggest that most people are thoroughly surprised by this because they strongly believe that the result should be two separate loops. Here, we present results from a behavioral experiment confirming this anecdotal evidence and discuss potential theoretical explanations for why this demonstration evokes strong, but misleading intuitions and a related illusion of impossibility.
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spelling pubmed-80405672021-04-21 Möbius Band Surprise: A Systematic Illusion in Imagery Haugland, Mons Daniel Pearson, David G. Ekroll, Vebjørn Iperception Article When a Möbius loop is cut along the middle of the band, the result is a single connected loop, yet anecdotal evidence from science demonstrations and the use of this effect in magic tricks suggest that most people are thoroughly surprised by this because they strongly believe that the result should be two separate loops. Here, we present results from a behavioral experiment confirming this anecdotal evidence and discuss potential theoretical explanations for why this demonstration evokes strong, but misleading intuitions and a related illusion of impossibility. SAGE Publications 2021-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8040567/ /pubmed/33889381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20416695211004972 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons CC BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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