Fig. 1.

Illustration of the timing and stimulus variations used in our experiments. Participants’ task was to detect whether the critical moment of ball contact was either absent or present for each trial. We manipulated the continuation of the video clip after the cut. There was either a causal continuation, such as a ball flying across the field, a non-causal continuation, such as players preparing for a throw-in, or a white mask that covered the video content after the cut