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Welcome to the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!


Submissions for the 2008 contest are now welcome. Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award! Direct queries to: Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society)

The deadline has been extended. FINAL submission date (no exceptions) is now March 1st!




Submissions
for the 2008 contest are now welcome. Submit your ideas now
and take home this prestigious award! Direct queries to:
Susana Martinez-Conde
(Illusion Contest Coordinator,
Neural Correlate Society
)


2007 TOP 10 finalists to be announced
soon!


Keep checking our website for updates!



2008 TOP 10 finalists now announced!

Don't miss the Contest Gala in Naples!

The 2008 Contest will be hosted by Stuart Anstis.



Results of the 2008 Contest now announced!


Check all the illusions!

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Please feel free to donate more than $1, if you can. Whatever the size, your donation
is fully tax-deductible. The Neural Correlate Society is a tax-exempt non-profit
501(c)3 organization whose mission is to promote public knowledge and education
of vision research. Thank you!


The TOP THREE WINNERS of the 2008 Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest were:

1st prize
Rob van Lier and Mark Vergeer
(Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Filling in the Afterimage after the Image
1st prize
1st prize - © 2008 van Lier & Mark Vergeer
2nd prize
Rob Jenkins
(University of Glasgow, UK)
Ghostly Gaze
3rd prize
Thomas Papathomas
(Rutgers University, USA)
Rolling Eyes on a Hollow Mask


See all the 2008 TOP 10 finalist illusions!


Important information for VSS registrants:

Please note that the VSS meeting and the Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest are two separate and independent events: submitting illusions to the Contest does not preclude you from abstract submission to the VSS meeting, or vice versa.




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Trophies

Trophies donated by renowned sculptor
Guido Moretti



Cello music at the
2008 Contest Gala
by E. Zoe Hassman



Watch Illusion and
Reality: At the Boundary
of Art and Science
by Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD