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Calls for Papers/Participation

submission deadline: October 14, 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Las Vegas (NV), March 22-27, 2009  Call for Papers/Participation for the Session Series on: Cognition, Behavior, and Representation. More info: Open .pdf document

submission deadline: February 28, 2009 Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition: Call for Papers: 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


Upcoming Conferences / Meetings

June 24-26, 2008 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Qualitative Reasoning research lies at the boundary between Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. QR combines the quest for fundamental understanding of how people reason about physical systems with new ways to supplement conventional modeling, analysis, diagnosis, and control techniques to tackle real-world applications.

Please join us in June at the foot of the Rocky Mountains this summer to learn more about recent advances in this important and exciting research area.

July 16-18, 2008 Advanced Training Institute on Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research, University of California, Santa Barbara. To enable more researchers to learn about GIS, the APA Science Directorate is sponsoring an Advanced Training Institute on “Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research, ” directed by Dr. Reginald G. Golledge of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The ATI will be held on July 16-18, 2008, in Santa Barbara. It is an expanded version of a one-day course offered in 2007 at the APA Convention in San Francisco.
This summer’s course will feature coverage of GIS usage in the health sciences, cognitive science, counseling, criminology, and education.

July 20-25, 2008 Invited Symposium on Interindividual Differences in Spatial Cognition  We are planning to announce a symposium on the International Congress of Psychology in Berlin (20.7-25.7. 2008) on Interindividual Differences in Spatial Cognition. We would be glad if some of the members of the Spatial SILC Network like to attend this group. For further information of the congress see http://www.icp2008.de/ . Please write a short email to either or if you are interested in attending this.

September 15-19, 2008:  International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC'08), Freiburg, Germany. Their website: http://conference.spatial-cognition.de/sc08. Also more info here.


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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SILC NEWS/UPDATES

10/07/2008
Call for Papers/Participation (deadline is soon!: October 14, 2008).

10/03/2008
There are now 197 members in our Spatial Network!

10/02/2008
Our NSF Award number is now listed in our footer...a useful reference for our SILC members who need this info for publications.

10/02/2008
Many links are being added to our Network Members page. Check it out.

09/24/2008
SILC and University of Pennsylvania are co-hosting two talks at IRCS.

09/19/2008
The SILC wiki has moved to a different machine. Please, update your bookmarks for the SILC wiki to: http://silcwiki.eecs.northwestern.edu/. If you have any questions or concerns with this wiki, please contact Jeff Usher:   .


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