Neuroscience
Filling in the Afterimage after the Image
1st prize, 2008
Rob van Lier and Mark Vergeer
(Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Do you have an entry for this year's contest? Are you mesmerized by visual illusions? Then read on!
For more information, visit the contest website.
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Wow, I'm truly impressed! 50 inspired and inspiring new neurowords were entered in the contest by 30 people. Ranging from jokiness to snarkiness to serious descriptions of science, I think a lot of them are destined to enter the lexicon. Now that...
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Neuroscience
Call for Submissions: Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest!
Filling in the Afterimage after the Image
1st prize, 2008
Rob van Lier and Mark Vergeer
(Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Do you have an entry for this year's contest? Are you mesmerized by visual illusions? Then read on!
Submission instructionsVisual Illusion Contestants are invited to submit novel visual or multimodal illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2008) in standard image, movie or html formats. An international panel of impartial judges will rate the submissions and narrow them to the top ten. Then, at the Contest Gala in Naples, the top ten illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS!. . .Submissions can be emailed to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) until February 16th, 2009. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings (if known). Illusions will be rated according to:
- Significance to our understanding of the visual system
- Simplicity of the description
- Sheer beauty
- Counterintuitive quality
- Spectacularity
For more information, visit the contest website.
- The Winner Is...
Wow, I'm truly impressed! 50 inspired and inspiring new neurowords were entered in the contest by 30 people. Ranging from jokiness to snarkiness to serious descriptions of science, I think a lot of them are destined to enter the lexicon. Now that...
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- Neuroscience For Kids!! 2009 Drawing Contest!
The 2008-2009 NEUROSCIENCE FOR KIDS Drawing CONTEST is now open! Here are [some of] the rules: Only one entry per person. Use either the PDF or WORD versions of the official entry form (copies of the form are acceptable) to enter a picture on the topic...
- Visual Illusions Again
VSS is the Vision Science's Society conference that's held every year in Naples, FL. I couldn't make it this year, but they have a contest for the best new visual illusion that's usually a pretty good show; illusions are getting cleverer....
- Psyc Gear Design Contest
Have an idea for some great PSYC Gear? Submit your design for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate to the online store. The submission deadline is February 28, 2013, so fire up the right side of that brain and get ready to see your creation...