
Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real about the colors you see here
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik are professors of ophthalmology at the State University of New York and the organizers of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest. They have co-authored Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions and Champions of Illusion: The Science behind Mind-Boggling Images and Mystifying Brain Puzzles.
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