[visionlist] Illusion Contest -- SATURDAY -- 7pm!

[Susana Martinez-Conde]

The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest happens on Saturday at 7pm in
Sarasota!! 

 

The contest is not listed on the VSS program, so be sure not to miss it at
the Van Wezel Hall!

 

Free Hors d'oeuvres will be served at 6.30pm. 

 

The 2007 Contest Gala will be hosted by Denis Pelli! The contest is free and
everybody is invited!!!

 

Who will the TOP THREE winners be??? That's up to YOU! The audience will
choose them from the current TOP TEN list. 

 

For more details, please visit our webpage:
http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com
<http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/>      

 

2007 TOP TEN ILLUSION CONTESTANTS (alphabetical order): To see the illusions
themselves. you must come to the CONTEST!!!

 

"The illusory contoured tilting Pyramid", by Pietro Guardini and Luciano
Gamberini (University of Padova, Italy)

"Bouncing Brains" illusion, by Thorsten Hansen, Kai Hamburger and Karl
Gegenfurtner (University of Giessen, Germany)

"'Weaves' and the Hermann Grid", by Kai Hamburger and Arthur Shapiro
(University of Giessen, Germany, and Bucknell University, USA)

"Drifting background illusion", by Masaharu Kato (Uppsala University,
Sweden)

"The Leaning Tower Illusion", by Frederick Kingdom (McGill University,
Canada)

"Swimmers, Eels and other Gradient-Gradient Illusions", by Emily Knight and
Arthur Shapiro (Bucknell University, USA)

"Steel Magnolias and Breeze in the Trees Illusions", by Michael Pickard
(Sunderland University, UK)

"Where has all the motion gone?", by Arthur Shapiro and Emily Knight
(Bucknell University, USA)

"Kaleidoscopic motion and velocity illusions" by Peter van der Helm (Radboud
University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

"It's a circle, honest!", by David Whitaker (University of Bradford, UK)

 

On behalf of the Neural Correlate Society,

 

Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest Coordinator)

 

Neural Correlate Society Executive Committee: Jose-Manuel Alonso, Stephen
Macknik, 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 vision
research.

 

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Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

Director, Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience

Division of Neurobiology

Barrow Neurological Institute

350 W. Thomas Rd

Phoenix AZ 85013, USA

 

Phone: +1 (602) 406-3484

Fax: +1 (602) 406-4172

Email: smart at neuralcorrelate.com

http://www.neuralcorrelate.com/smc_lab

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