The Disappearing Hand Trick

Winner of the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest 2012 Roger Newport, Helen Gilpin and Catherine Preston University of Nottingham, UK This multi-sensory illusion uses vision, touch and position sense to create the illusion that the hand has disappeared. The felt positions of the hands are gradually adapted without the participant noticing so that the real locations of the hands end up further outwards than their perceived locations. When the right hand is removed from