Connectionists: TOP TEN illusions of 2013

[Susana Martinez-Conde]

The Best Illusion of the Year Contest is happy to announce the TOP TEN
illusions of 2013!

The 2013 Contest Gala will be on Monday, May 13th, in the Philharmonic
Center of Arts (Naples Fl). The TOP TEN illusions will be shown for the
first time at the Gala, and posted on the Best Illusion of the Year
Contest's website immediately afterwards. Who will the TOP THREE winners be?
That's up to you! The live audience will choose them from the current TOP
TEN list.

2013 TOP TEN ILLUSION CONTESTANTS (alphabetical order):

Through the Eyes of Giants, by Arash Afraz and Ken Nakayama (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Harvard University, USA)

Dynamic Size Contrast Illusion- or the incredibly shrinking/growing shape!,
by Gideon Caplovitz (University of Nevada Reno, USA)

Rotation or Deformation? A Surprising Consequence of the Kinetic Depth
Effect, by Attila Frakas and Alen Hajnal (University of Southern
Mississippi, USA)

Non-trackable Moving Dots Look faster, by Alan Ho and Stuart Anstis (Ambrose
University College, Canada, and UC San Diego, USA)

Rotation Generated by Translation, by Jun Ono, Akiyasu Tomoeda and Kokichi
Sugihara (Meiji University and CREST, Japan)

Dancing Diamond, by Michael Pickard and Alessandro Soranzo (University of
Sunderland and Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom)

The Disappearing Smoke - Disappearing Pleasure!, by Sidney Pratt, Martha
Sanchez and Karla Rovira (Sin Humo, Costa Rica)

Tusi or not Tusi, by Arthur Shapiro and Alex Rose-Henig (American
University, USA)

The Knobby Sphere Illusion, by Peter Tse (Dartmouth College, USA)

Three-fold cubes: Objects whose form can be interpreted in three different
ways, by Guy Wallis and David Lloyd (University of Queensland, Australia)

 

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society,

 

Susana Martinez-Conde (Executive Producer, Best Illusion of the Year
Contest)

 

Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen
Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Luis Martinez, Xoana Troncoso, Peter Tse

 

The Neural Correlate Society is a tax-exempt 501(c)3 non-profit
organization, whose mission is to promote the public awareness of
neuroscience research.

 

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience

Barrow Neurological Institute

350 W. Thomas Rd.

Phoenix AZ 85013

USA

 

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