[visionlist] TOP TEN ILLUSION FINALISTS!!

[Susana Martinez-Conde]

The Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest is happy to announce that the
TOP TEN illusions have been chosen!! 

 

The Contest Gala will be on Sunday, May 11th, 7pm, in the Philharmonic
Center of Arts (Naples Fl), during the week of VSS. 

 

The 2008 Contest Gala will be hosted by Stuart Anstis! 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/>      

 

2008 TOP TEN ILLUSION CONTESTANTS (alphabetical order): To see the illusions
themselves
 you must come to the CONTEST!!!

 

"Skyscrapers and Clouds", by Sandro Betella, Clara Casco and Sergio Roncato
(Università di Padova, Italy)

 

"Stereo Rotation Standstill”, by Max Dursteler (University Hospital Zurich,
Switzerland)

 

"Ghostly Gaze", by Rob Jenkins (University of Glasgow, UK)

 

"Dramatically Different Percepts between Foveal and Peripheral Vision", by
Emily Knight, Arthur Shapiro and Zhong-Lin Lu (Bucknell University and
University of Southern California, USA)


"Rolling Eyes on a Hollow Mask", by Thomas Papathomas (Rutgers University,
USA)

 

"Pinball Wizard", by Michael Pickard (Sunderland University, UK)

 

"Perpetual Collisions”, by Arthur Shapiro and Emily Knight( Bucknell
University, USA)

 

"Filling in the Afterimage after the Image", by Rob van Lier and Mark
Vergeer (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

 

“The Mutually Interfering Shapes Illusion (The MISillusion)”, by Maarten
Wijntjes, Robert Volcic and Thomas Knapen (Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht
University, The Netherlands)

 

"Yang’s Iris Illusion", by Jisien Yang and Adrian Schwaninger (University of
Zurich, Switzerland; National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan and Max Planck
Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany)

 

 

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

Barrow Neurological Institute

350 W. Thomas Rd.

Phoenix AZ 85013

USA

 

Phone: +1 602 406-3484

Fax: +1 602 406-4192

Email: smart at neuralcorrelate.com

http://smc.neuralcorrelate.com 

 

 

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