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♦ Analogical Learning
Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University
This talk is from the Virtual Colloquium on Cognitive Modeling, March 2004.
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♦ Educating Spatial Intelligence
Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University
This talk was given at the National Geographic Society, November 2008.
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♦ Eight Reasons to Doubt the Existence of a Geometric Module
Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University
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♦ Qualitative modeling of common sense understanding
Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern University
This talk is from the Virtual Colloquium on Cognitive Modeling, September 12, 2002.
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Today is Thursday, July 29, 2010

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7/28/2010
Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Mehul Bhatt, Lila Chrysikou, Christophe Claramunt, John Gero, Jeff Nickerson and Kathleen Stewart.

7/7/2010
The July SILC Showcase is on-line.

6/29/2010
Up-dates have been made to the following pages: Analogical Reasoning, Photo Gallery, SILC Members: Grads and Postdocs and Meetings Archive.

6/16/2010
Read Sian Beilock's (one of our SILC Faculty Members) blog response to John Tierney's New York Times article "Daring to Discuss Women in Science." This info has also been added to our Press Room.
Sian Beilock's blog Choke is on the Psychology Today website.

6/11/2010
Updates have been made on the following pages: Developing Infrastructure, Diversity, Build Field, Talks & Lectures.

6/03/2010
Our Outreach page has been up-dated.

6/01/2010
The June SILC Showcase is on-line.

5/25/2010
References have been added to the Tools: Language page.

5/20/2010
More updates have been made this week to our Publications page and several references have been added to a few Initiatives (One, Two, Three, Four) pages.

5/13/2010
More updates have been made to our Publications page.

5/12/2010
More .pdf documents have been added to our Publications page.

5/5/2010
Our Publications page has been up-dated with .pdf documents. There will be more added in the near future.

5/5/2010
The new webpages are up. See our menu for "Overview" and "Initiatives".

5/4/2010
The new pages to our website will be available for public viewing tomorrow.

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