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Calls for Papers/Participation

Submission deadline: December 31, 2008 Call for Papers: Computational Models of Place: Special Issue of Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal. For more information see the attached .pdf document:   Open .pdf document
For submission instructions: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~scc/index.html

Submission deadline: January 31, 2008 Symposia Deadline: 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Spatial Cognition and Action (ICSC 2009) in Rome, Italy. http://w3.uniroma1.it/icsc/2009/

Submission deadline: January 31, 2008 Call for Abstracts: on Session Topics (see Word document) for Thirteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems.
For more information and submission guidelines:   Open Word document

Submission deadline: February 28, 2009 Call for Abstracts: 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Spatial Cognition and Action (ICSC 2009) in Rome, Italy. http://w3.uniroma1.it/icsc/2009/

Submission deadline: February 28, 2009 Call for Papers: Spatial Cognition and Computation: Special Issue on You-Are-Here Maps --Creating Spatial Awareness through Map-like Representations. For more information see the attached .pdf document:   Open .pdf document
Submissions will be handled through the submission system, Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hspcc

submission deadline: February 28, 2009 Call for Papers: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition: Special Section titled "Spatial reference frames: Integrating Cognitive Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Approaches." For more information see the attached .pdf document:   Open .pdf document  The website for submission guidelines is: http://www.apa.org/journals/xlm/submission.html

Conferences / Meetings

Dates of Upcoming Conferences / Meetings

March 22-27, 2009:  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas, NV.

April 26 to May 10, 2009:  Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop in Sardinia. http://cne.ini.uzh.ch/capocaccia08 More info here: Open .pdf document

May 27 to May 30, 2009:  Thirteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems in Boston, MA at Boston University. http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/ More info here: Open Word document

September 14-18, 2009:  4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Spatial Cognition and Action (ICSC 2009) in Rome, Italy. http://w3.uniroma1.it/icsc/2009/.


Other Conferences / Meetings Information

November 6-8, 2008 Washington, D.C.: A Workshop on Spatial Learning in Geography: A Cross-Community Conversation.
For more information about this workshop and to retrieve workshop documents, go to: WORKSHOP

Talks &Lecture Series

♦ 9/26/2008 Talk given by Veronique Bohbot (Faculty of Medicine, McGill University) at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Co-Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania and SILC. More info.

♦ 10/03/2008 Talk given by David Waller (Department of Psychology, Miami University of Ohio) at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Co-Sponsored by University of Pennsylvania and SILC. More info.

FALL Lecture Series Schedule:

Note: This is a graduate seminar jointly offered by University of Chicago and Northwestern University.

October 2008
  • 10/06 Invited Speaker: Juergen Bohnemeyer
  • 10/20 Invited Speaker: John Rieser
November 2008
  • 11/03 Invited Speaker: Joan Stiles
  • 11/17 Invited Speaker: Jodie Plumert
December 2008
  • 12/01 Invited Speaker: Daniel Haun
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Read our latest updates and incoming news below or for SILC in the press go to our Press Room (click on PRESS ROOM icon above).

12/23/2008
Please, welcome to our Network: Paula Goolkasian, Keith Lyle, Jukka Hyönä, Timothy Hubbard, Bradley Sturz, Yaoda Xu, and Anna Shusterman. There are now 219 members in our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page is up-dated as well.

12/18/2008
Pardon our Dust: The Faculty section of our SILC Members People page is getting revamped. We are reformatting and adding many lovely links.

12/18/2008
Susan Levine and Nora Newcombe are quoted in an article titled: Baby boys may show spatial supremacy: Male superiority on mental rotation tasks may develop within a few months after birth. More info in our Press Room.

12/17/2008
Please, welcome to our Network: Alice F. Healy, Zachary Estes, Monica Castelhano, Victor Ferreira, Timothy Welsh, Joan Stiles, Jesse Sargent, Sean Duffy, Susan Naylor-Emlen, Bruce Bridgeman, Michelle Verges, Naohide Yamamoto, and Tad T. Brunye. There are now 212 members in our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page is up-dated as well.

12/16/2008
New conference listing and call for symposia & abstracts for ICSC 2009.

12/16/2008
The Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center would like to invite interested researchers currently conducting spatial cognition and learning research to join this open network. If you would like to be involved, please contact Dr. Sian Beilock, Associate Professor of Psychology at The University of Chicago to request an invitation:   

12/12/2008
New Call for Abstracts (submission deadline: January 31, 2009) for Thirteenth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems. Conference listing here.

12/10/2008
Please, welcome Brian Verdine to our Network. There are now 199 members in our Spatial Network!

12/03/2008
A new Call for Papers for a journal is now up on our Calls/Meetings page. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2008.

Read about past SILC News in our Archive.