The Spanish translation of Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde’s book Sleights of Mind (“Los Enganos de la Mente“) has won the Prisma Prize, an annual science communication award to the best book of the year. The Prisma Prizes, now in their 26th edition, are awarded by the Casa das Ciencias museum in Spain. Steve will attend the award ceremony in A Coruna, Spain, this Saturday, November 16th.
Lab news
Poster Prize
Eva Siegenthaler won 1st Prize for her Poster Presentation at the European Summer School on Eye Movements in Bonn
Susana will give a series of three public lectures at the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center in Ramat-Gan, Israel, on 09/15, 09/16 and 09/17
Susana lectured at the European Summer School on Eye Movements in Bonn on 09/09/13

Jorge Otero-Millan leaves the Martinez-Conde lab
Jorge Otero-Millan leaves the Martinez-Conde lab to start a postdoc with Amir Kheradmand and David Zee at Johns Hopkins. Good luck Jorge, we’ll miss you!!
August 30, 2013

Vision Is All About Change
Susana wrote a New York Times Op-Ed about our new research paper in PNAS on how vision requires change
Susana Martinez-Conde appointed as Member of the Cognition and Perception Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, for the term beginning July 1, 2013
Susana Martinez-Conde starts writing “Illusion Chasers” blog for Scientific American

EyeTrack Award
Martinez-Conde Lab’s research receives EyeTrackAward: Distinctive features of saccadic intrusions and microsaccades in progressive supranuclear palsy