The Best Illusion of the Year Contest is happy to announce the TOP TEN illusions of 2015!
The Best Illusion of the Year Contest is now an annual online event, in which anybody with an internet connection can participate! No matter where you live, you will be able to vote for the TOP THREE winners from the current TOP TEN list!
Worldwide voting will take place in June – stay tuned for further information about the voting date and instructions!
All TOP TEN finalists will receive a commemorative plaque. In addition, the TOP THREE winners will receive a $3,000 award for first place; a $2,000 award for second place, and a $1,000 award for third place.
2015 TOP TEN ILLUSION CONTESTANTS (alphabetical order by first author):
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)
On behalf of the Executive Board of the Neural Correlate Society:
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
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
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