2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest

Submissions for the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest are now welcome. Submit your ideas now and take home this prestigious award!

Direct queries to: Susana Martinez-Conde (Neural Correlate Society president)

The Top Three Winners of the 2013 Contest were:

1st prize

1st prize

Rotation Generated by Translation
Jun Ono, Akiyasu Tomoeda and Kokichi Sugihara
(Meiji University and CREST, Japan)
2nd prize

2nd prize

Tusi or not Tusi
Arthur Shapiro and Alex Rose-Henig
(American University, USA)
3rd prize

3rd prize

Through the Eyes of Giants
Arash Afraz and Ken Nakayama
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, USA)

The Best illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world’s premier illusion research community. Contestants from all around the world submitted novel illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2012), and an international panel of judges rated them and narrowed them to the TOP TEN. At the Contest Gala in the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, the top ten illusionists presented their creations and the attendees of the event voted to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!

Important information for VSS registrants:

The Best Illusion of the Year Contest is an Official Satellite of the VSS meeting: submitting illusions to the Contest does not preclude you from abstract submission to the VSS meeting, or vice versa.