Connectionists: Countdown to the 11th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest

[Susana Martinez-Conde]

The Best Illusion of the Year Contest <http://illusionoftheyear.com/> ,
hosted by the Neural Correlate Society
<http://illusionoftheyear.com/about-the-contest/about-the-ncs-2/> , is now
an annual online event, in which anybody with an internet connection (that
means YOU!) can vote to pick the Top 3 Winners from the current Top 10 List.


 

Ten novel illusions, submitted from five different countries, and selected
by an international judge panel
<http://illusionoftheyear.com/about-the-contest/judges/>  from dozens of
entries, will compete for first, second, and third placement on June
11th-12th.  The final rankings will be decided by worldwide online voting.

 

The winning illusions will receive a $3,000 award for 1st place, a $2,000
award for 2nd place, and a $1,000 award for 3rd place.

 

Worldwide voting will take place on the Best Illusion of the Year Contest
website <http://illusionoftheyear.com> , from 7pm EST June 11th to 7pm EST
June 12th. The Top 10 finalist illusions, listed below, will be publicly
revealed at that time!  

 

Masashi Atarashi: "Snow Blind Illusion". Physics teacher at Aichi
Prefectural Gojo Senior High School (Japan) 

Luke Bashford and Carsten Mehring: "The third hand illusion". Bernstein
Center Freiburg, University of Freiburg (Germany)

Marco Bertamini and Nicola Bruno: "The Honeycomb Illusion". University of
Liverpool (UK)

Christopher Blair, Lars Strother, and Gideon Caplovitz: "The Wandering
Circles". University of Nevada, Reno (USA)

Nicolas Davidenko: "Motion Pareidolia". University of California, Santa Cruz
(USA)

Rosa Lafer-Sousa: "Disambiguating #theDress". Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (USA)

Michael Pickard: "The Day it Rained on Lowry". VisuallyDirectedDesign.com
(UK)

Arthur Shapiro: "The Star Wars Scroll Illusion". American University (USA)

Kokichi Sugihara" "Ambiguous Garage Roof". Meiji University (Japan)

Mark Vergeer: "Splitting Colors". KU Leuven (Belgium) 

 

 

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology & Pharmacology

Director, Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience

Scholar, Empire Innovator Program

State University of New York (SUNY)

Downstate Medical Center

450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn NY 11203, USA

Email:  <mailto:smart at neuralcorrelate.com> smart at neuralcorrelate.com

Phone: +1 718-270-4520

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