2015 Illusion Champions Announced--The People Have Spoken!! Congratulations to the winners of the 11th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest , hosted by the Neural Correlate Society ! See them here, NOW!
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Congratulations to the winners of the 11th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest , hosted by the Neural Correlate Society !
This week, online voters around the world chose the best illusions of the year!
First Place and an award of $3,000 USD went to “Splitting Colors ,” a color perception illusion by Mark Vergeer from KU Leuven, Belgium.
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Second Place and an award of $2,000 USD went to “Ambiguous Garage Roof ,” a perspective illusion by Kokichi Sugihara from Meiji University, Japan.
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Third Place and an award of $1,000 USD went to “The Day it Rained on Lowry ,” a motion illusion by Michael Pickard from VisuallyDirectedDesign.com in the UK.
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Enjoy the winning illusions and all Top 10 Finalists !
Illusion submissions are now accepted for the 12th edition of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest, to be held in 2016.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S) Susana Martinez-Conde is a professor of opthalmology, neurology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is author of the Prisma Prize-winning Sleights of Mind , along with Stephen L. Macknik and Sandra Blakeslee. Their forthcoming book, Champions of Illusion , will be published by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Follow Susana Martinez-Conde on Twitter Credit: Sean McCabe
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