1. Best Representation of the Human Connectome
2. Best Abstract/Freestyle Brain Illustration
3. Best Image Resulting from an Error or Bug
4. Best Video Illustration of the Brain
5. Special Topic: Best Multimodal Brain Illustration
6. Best "Under 14" Brain Illustration

Congratulations to the winners:

Best Representation of the Human Connectome

‘Round the Connectome in Eighty Seconds Katja Heuer, Roberto Toro MPI, Institut Pasteur

Best Abstract/Freestyle Brain Illustration

Moitryoshka-Mytryoshka Josefina Maranzano McGill University Flattened Acrylic Katja Heuer MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Best Image Resulting from an Error or Bug

Gold Stars Estrid Jakobsen MPI, Leipzig

Best Video Illustration of the Brain

The Trumpeting Brain Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Special Topic: Best Multimodal Brain Illustration

Juggling Hats AmanPreet Badhwar CRIUGM, Université de Montréal

Best "Under 14" Brain Illustration

Maybe Raspberry Icecream Hilary Toulmin King’s College, London

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Note on Licensing: All submissions to the Brain Art Competition 2014 are the artists' own work, and protected under the following Creative Commons license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Best Representation of the Human Connectome

Roberto Toro
Institut Pasteur

Dave Liewald
Edinburgh University

Alexander Leemans
University Medical Center Utrecht

Dave Liewald
Edinburgh University

Katja Heuer, Roberto Toro
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Institut Pasteur

Sanja Budisavljevic
University of Padova

David Moreno-Dominguez
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Chenot Amandine

Dumitru FETCO
McGill University, MNI, BIC

Dumitru FETCO
McGill University, MNI, BIC

Alexander Leemans
University Medical Center Utrecht

Alexander Leemans
University Medical Center Utrecht

AmanPreet Badhwar, PhD
CRIUGM, Université de Montréal

Best Abstract/Freestyle Brain Illustration

Best Image Resulting from an Error or Bug

Estrid Jakobsen
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Lukas Schaeffner
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge

romain valabregue
CENIR ICM, INSERM

Paul McCarthy
FMRIB

Amaia Benitez
Maastricht University

Ivonne Fernandez y Gonzalez

Estrid Jakobsen
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Amaia Benitez
Maastricht University

Etta Howells
King’s College London

Estrid Jakobsen
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Estrid Jakobsen
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

romain valabregue
CENIR ICM, INSERM

Special Topic: Best Multimodal Brain Illustration

Best "Under 14" Brain Illustration

Maybe Raspberry Icecream Hilary Toulmin King's College, London, UK

An 8 year old's animation to introduce other 8 year olds to MRI scanning using playmobil people and a 3-D printed mini MRI scanner.

Best Video Illustration of the Brain

Interactive tractography-driven resting-state fMRI connectivity Maxime Chamberland Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab

The video illustrates an interactive method to generate and visualize tractography-driven resting-state functional connectivity in real-time.

The Trumpeting Brain Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

White matter fiber tract pathways are shown with different colors and widths to emphasize the local degree of uncertainty along their trajectories. More specifically, yellowish colors and large tract widths represent a higher uncertainty than reddish colors and small tract widths. From this type of visualization one can appreciate, for instance, the lower reliability (see the trumpet-shaped ending of a fiber tract) when pathways are projecting into the cortical regions.

Just tracts... Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Like I said... just tracts...

Transcallosal motor connections Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Transcallosal motor connections reconstructed with diffusion MRI based fiber tractography

Fusion #1 Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Combining GM cortical surface from T1 image with color-encoded orientation from diffusion MRI.

1+1>2 Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Textbook example where combining two modalities gives an added value: high-res info from T1, higher WM specificity from diffusion (color-encoding reflects orientation).

Ceci n'est pas une "Uncinate fasciculus" Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Fiber pathways that are part of the uncinate fasciculus... Or are they?!

Brain network visualization Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Diffusion tractography based network visualization.

Seeing more by showing less Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Orientation-dependent transparency rendering for enhanced tract visualization.

Brain FODs Alexander Leemans University Medical Center Utrecht

Brain fiber orientation distribution (FOD) profiles estimated with spherical deconvolution.

Tonotopic mapping Jamaan Alghamdi King Abdulaziz University

This video is an illustration of an fMRI experiment of tonotopic mapping. In this experiment we presented different frequencies to a participant. It could be used for the educational purpose.

BrainGasm[ASMR] Benedicte Batrancourt & Michel Thiebaut de Schotten Brain and Spine Institute

Brain animation inducing autonomous sensory meridian response.

Please watch in high resolution. Baby Brainwaves William Hutch INFANT, University College Cork

Have you ever heard what the newborn baby brain sounds like? This short film allows you to hear such sounds or "baby brainwave music". We here at INFANT are using innovative technology to treat babies born too soon, too small and too sick.