• • Home
  • About the Contest
  • Submission instructions
  • Venue
  • Committees
  • Judges
  • Trophies
  • Photo Gallery
  • Sponsors
  • In the news
  • Museum Exhibits
  • Previous Contests
    • 2011 Contest
    • 2010 Contest
    • 2009 Contest
    • 2008 Contest
      • Top 10 Finalists
      • Trophies
      • Photo Gallery
      • Judge Panel
      • Volunteer Committee
    • 2007 Contest
    • 2006 Contest
    • 2005 Contest
  • Advertising Information
  • K-12 ADVANCED access to illusions!!!

• Illusions

  • 2011 Finalists
  • 2010 Finalists
  • 2009 Finalists
  • 2008 Finalists
  • 2007 Finalists
  • 2006 Finalists
  • 2005 Finalists
  • Neuroscience behind visual illusions
  • Published Illusions

• Support the contest!

  

  The Contest relies on your donations.

• Illusions by feature

  1st prize 2nd prize 3D 3rd prize Afterimage Ambiguous Attention Background Blur Brightness Color Contrast Faces Flicker Gradient Hidden figures Impossible figure Motion Peripheral Perspective Rotation Shape Stereo
• Search for:

• Links

  • Macknik Lab
  • Martinez-Conde lab
  • Neuralcorrelate.com

• Subscribe to Mailing List

  Click here to subscribe to our mailing list!

  Visitors

  

• Post your ad here

• 

  Pre-order or buy the paperback edition of The Invisible Gorilla by June 11, and the authors will donate part of the proceeds to support the illusion contest or another charity you select.

  

  Buy the new book by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde on the neuroscience of magic and illusions, co-written with Sandra Blakeslee of the New York Times.

• 

• The Illusions Gift Shop

  Buy a t-shirt with your favorite illusion to support the contest

• Trophies

  

  Trophies donated by renowned sculptor
  Guido Moretti

• Top Rated Illusions

  	Impossible motion: magnet-like slopes
  	The break of the curveball
  	Mask of Love
  	Coffer Illusion
  	Two sinusoids: 6 – 1 perceptions
  	Swimmers, Eels and Other Gradient-Gradient Illusions
  	Perpetual Collisions
  	Motion-Illusion Building Blocks
  	Smooth pursuit motion suppression
  	ECVP Waves
  	Filling in the Afterimage after the Image
  	Dynamic Luminance-Gradient Effect
  	Grouping by Contrast
  	Healing Grid
  	The illusion of sex

Best Illusion of the Year Contest is proudly powered by WordPress
© 2005-2009 Neural Correlate Society - Legal - Designed by Jorge Otero-Millan