7/28/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Mehul Bhatt, Lila Chrysikou, Christophe Claramunt, John Gero, Jeff Nickerson and Kathleen Stewart.
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.
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.
4/30/2010 Please, note that on Tuesday, May 4 the website will be undergoing major up-dates to reflect changes to our SILC. The website will still be active, but new pages and menu options will appear (and other pages and menu options may disappear).
4/30/2010 Our Publications page has been up-dated.
4/30/2010 Our May Showcase is on-line: Sketch Worksheets go to their first class [Kenneth D. Forbus]. The April Showcase will also be viewable on this page until early next week. It is also available in our archives.
4/28/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Sven Bertel, Reyyan Bilge, Hector Lopez, Sandra Metoyer, Anna Papfragou and Cristina Sampaio.
4/23/2010 Our Conference and Jobs pages have been up-dated.
4/2/2010 Our job postings page has been up-dated with two post-doctoral research positions.
4/1/2010 Our April Showcase is on-line: The Development and Assessment of Cross-Sectioning Ability in Young Children [Kristin Ratliff and Susan C. Levine].
3/26/2010 Our classes/workshops page has been up-dated: June 7-11, 2010: Dynamic Field Theory Summer School (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA).
3/4/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Hilary Barth, Sue Becker, Nathan Greenauer, Toru Ishikawa, Shaun P. Vecera, Tom verguts and Christoph Weidemann.
3/1/2010 Our March Showcase is on-line: The Role of Parent Gesture In Children's Spatial Language Development [Erica Cartmill, Shannon M. Pruden Dick, Susan C. Levine, Susan Goldin-Meadow].
2/18/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Member: Kevin Mulqueeny.
2/12/2010 Job opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center, University of Chicago.
2/12/2010 New publication by our SILC Members: Jee, B. D., Uttal, D. H., Gentner, D., Manduca, C., Shipley, T., Sageman, B., Ormand, C. J., & Tikoff, B. (2010). Analogical thinking in geoscience education.
2/10/2010 Note: Full paper submission deadline [in Calls section on Meetings page] for Spatial Cognition 2010 has been changed to: February 21, 2010.
2/9/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Ed Golob and Kelly McCormick.
2/5/2010 Please, note that we will soon be implementing a database for the Bibliography page. Due to this we are only up-dating the database.
2/5/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Member: Michael Brown.
2/1/2010 Our February Showcase is on-line: Playful Learning: Exploring the Role of Dialogic Inquiry and Exploration in Children's Developing Shape Concepts [Kelly R. Fisher, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Nora Newcombe].
1/27/2010 Read the current Press on SILC-generated research: Female teachers' math anxiety affects girls' math achievement by Sian L. Beilock, Elizabeth A. Gunderson, Gerardo Ramirez and Susan C. Levine.
1/7/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Member: Roy Ruddle.
1/6/2010 The January SILC Showcase is now on-line: Facilitation of spatial skills necessary in performing geologic transformations [Ilyse Resnick, Temple University; Thomas Shipley, Temple University; Cathryn Manduca, Carleton College; and Nora Newcombe, Temple University].
12/21/2009 Links were fixed under the sketch inquiry, Help Us Gather Sketches, on our homepage. Please, note that if you ever encounter a link that does not work, please send it to the attention of Jenn Stedillie, webmaster for this site:
12/21/2009 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Elena Andonova, Kirsten Butcher, Liz Chrastil, Lisa Douglas & Ian Fogarty.
12/02/2009 The December SILC Showcase is now on-line: Spatial categories across languages [Naveen Khetarpal, University of Chicago; Asifa Majid, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen; Terry Regier, University of California, Berkeley].
11/24/2009 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: David Bamps, Karl Grossner and Laura Helle.
11/18/2009 We have up-dated our Sketching page, Press Room page and the CogSketch page of Northwestern University's QRG Lab with the following information: Want to help scientists help you? Researchers at the Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) are gathering a corpus of sketches using CogSketch. CogSketch is the sketch understanding software that we are creating, which is available for free from our web site. It has two purposes. First, we are using it to explore how people reason and learn. Second, we are exploring how to incorporate sketching into education, to improve student learning. By gathering people’s sketches, scientists will be able to do analyses that will help them with both of these missions. If you want to participate, all you have to do is download CogSketch, and indicate your acceptance when you install the software. (If you change your mind, there is a “Phone Home” setting in the software preferences.)
11/13/2009 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: David Banks, Daniel Casasanto, Drew Dara-Abrams, Yoel Donchin, Billie Eilam, Jon Ericson, David Goodsell, Katherine Scheiter and Angela Schwering.
10/28/2009 Meetings page is up-dated with an upcoming SILC Colloquium talk: CogSketch: Sketch understanding for cognitive science research and for education, Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern University.
10/28/2009 New Job Opportunity: Three Graduate Research Assistantships available at VEMI Lab, University of Maine.
10/02/2009 Please, welcome our new SILC Member: Ross Littauer (SILC Staff).
10/01/2009 Our October Showcase is now on-line: Spatial Ability, Spatial Anxiety, and Working Memory
in Early Elementary School (Gerardo Ramirez , Elizabeth A. Gunderson, Susan C. Levine & Sian L. Beilock. University of Chicago).
10/01/2009 Please, welcome our three new Advisory Board Members: Susan Finger, Herbert Ginsberg and Bob Tinker.
09/30/2009 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Peter Gerjets, Denise Wu, Rosemary Varley, Todd Gureckis, Dan Grodner, Mark Blades, Richard Ashley and Jennifer Campos. Our Bibliography page is up-dated as well.
09/30/2009 Please, welcome our new SILC Members: Neil Albert (SILC Postdoc) and Melissa Herrett (SILC Staff).
09/18/2009 Info about submission of papers to GIScience 2010 (Zurich, Switzerland) is now on our Call for Papers page.
09/03/2009 Two talks have been added to our Talks page: Educating Spatial Intelligence and Eight Reasons to Doubt the Existence of a Geometric Module, both by Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University.
09/01/2009 The September Showcase is now on-line: How Spinning in Circles Informs Spatial Cognition, Alexandra Twyman (advisor: Nora Newcombe), 4th Year PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Temple University.
08/27/2009 Please, welcome Lisa Weckbacher and Diana Sinton to our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page has been up-dated as well.
08/27/2009 Please, welcome the new members of our SILC Advisory Board: Christian Freksa (Universitaet Bremen), Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University) and Marcia Linn (University of California, Berkeley). They are also members of our Spatial Network.
08/26/2009 Conference info and the submission deadline for the AAAI Spring Symposium on "Cognitive Shape Processing" has been added to our Conference page.
08/26/2009 Please, welcome Jonathan Shemwell, Stephen K. Reed and Jennifer Zosh to our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page has been up-dated as well.
08/25/2009 See our Press Room for the latest on SILC Members in the news: David Uttal is quoted in a CNN Health article.
08/25/2009 There are numerous up-dates being made to our website today. Please, be patient as some new links might not work until all new pages are up-loaded.
08/05/2009 August Showcase now on-line: Improving Children’s Understanding of Units of Measure: A Training Study (Susan Levine, Janellen Huttenlocher, Kristin Ratliff, Mee-Kyoung Kwon, Kevin Dietz. Department of Psychology, University of Chicago).
07/24/2009 Our People page is currently being up-dated.
07/17/2009 New media coverage: An article was added to our Press Room: Sketching a path to better education.
07/14/2009 Welcome to our new SILC Staff Member: Ashley Poltermann, Research Assistant, Northwestern University.
07/01/2009 View our July Showcase: Reorientation by Slope Cues in Humans [Daniele Nardi, Amanda Y. Funk, Nora S. Newcombe & Thomas F. Shipley, Department of Psychology, Temple University]
06/18/2009 Post-doctoral Research Associate position available, Air Force Research Laboratory's Cognitive Models and Agents Branch (Mesa, AZ).See our Jobs / Miscellaneous page.
06/11/2009 2 post-doctoral research positions available at University of Leeds (United Kingdom). See our Jobs / Miscellaneous page.
06/02/2009 Two upcoming conferences added to our Conferences page: Art Beyond Sight (October 16-17, 2009) and GIScience (September 14-17, 2010).
06/02/2009 View our June Showcase: Spatial-Temporal Processing and Social Cognition: Contributions to Language Development in Children with Autism [Julia Parish-Morris, Doctoral Candidate (Advisor: Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek) Department of Psychology, Temple University].
05/26/2009 2 doctoral and 2 post-doctoral positions available at RWTH Aachen University (Germany). See our Jobs / Miscellaneous page.
05/13/2009 Lab Coordinator position open at the University of Iowa. See our Jobs / Miscellaneous page.
05/11/2009 Call for Papers: COSIT '09 Workshop: Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration. Calls for Papers / Conferences / Meetings page.
05/11/2009 A job opportunity and a PhD studentship added to our Jobs / Miscellaneous page.
05/07/2009 An article, Scholars Debate Spatial Thinking and Science Learning at Conference, has been added to our PRESS ROOM.
05/01/2009 View our May Showcase: Processing figures and grounds in nonlinguistic events [Tilbe Göksun (advisor: Kathy Hirsh-Pasek), Department of Psychology, Temple University].
04/22/2009 Two post-doctoral positions have been added to our job opportunity page.
04/17/2009 New job opportunity: post-doctoral position open at The University of Pennsylvania.
04/17/2009 A link has been added to Michelle Kinzel's name to her M.S. Degree page (Using Educational Tools and Integrative Experiences via Geovisualizations that Incorporate Spatial Thinking, Real World Science and Ocean Literacy Standards in the Classroom: A Case Study Examined). Kinzel is one of our Spatial Network Members.
04/15/2009 CogSketch v1.11 has just been released. You can download it here. This version includes many enhancements over the previous public release (v1.04) — an improved user-interface, a new worksheet design environment, tools allowing experimenters to replay sketches, and improved recording of the history of user actions being chief among them.
04/13/2009 New job opportunity: Research Technical Assistant, Spatial Cognition Laboratory, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
04/10/2009 Please welcome our new SILC Members! Staff: Page Widick, Postdoc: Eileen Cardillo, and Graduate Students: Ilyse Resnick and Alexandra Morrison.
04/07/2009 Please, see the Call for Endorsement regarding a proposed symposium on "Cognitive Shape Processing" for the 2010 AAAI Spring Symposium.
04/07/2009 Please, welcome Jim Davies, Almut Hupbach, Jean Mandler, Duncan Sibley and Sandra Virtue to our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page has been up-dated as well.
04/04/2009 A slide show with links has been added to our homepage. Enjoy!
Website note: In IE the slide show is at the top of the page and centered, but in Firefox and Chrome the slide show is formatted to be on the left side of the page. Once a work-around is found, IE will also present the slide show on the left side of the page. You may email Jenn if you have an IE work-around:
04/04/2009 Please, welcome Tobias Meilinger to our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page has been up-dated as well.
04/01/2009 A photo from AAG 2009 has been added to our Photo Album.
04/01/2009 View our April Showcase: Simulating Cross-Cultural Differences in Spatial Reasoning via CogSketch (Kenneth Forbus, et al, Northwestern University).
04/01/2009 Please, welcome Sandra Virtue, a new SILC Adjunct Researcher.
03/19/2009 4th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Spatial Cognition and Action (ICSC 2009) in Rome, Italy. http://w3.uniroma1.it/icsc/2009/. Conference Flyer: This information also on our Conferences page.
03/19/2009 Please, welcome our new SILC Member, Jennifer Cromley, Temple University.
03/17/2009 Those who contribute to the understanding of spatial thinking and its applications are invited to participate in the collaborative creation of a wiki to serve undergraduate instructors interested in spatial thinking. Click on TeachSpatial.org to find out more about the project and/or to add to the wiki. We have added this link to our Links page, near the top of that page under: MISCELLANEOUS RESEARCH/OTHER LINKS.
03/11/2009 Citations from Glenn Gunzelmann have been added to our Bibliography page. Also, a link has been added for him on our Spatial Network page.
03/10/2009 Please, welcome Stephen C. Hirtle to our Spatial Network!
03/7/2009 Please, welcome Glenn Gunzelmann to our Spatial Network!
03/7/2009 Information on a new job opportunity for post-doctoral scholars available.
03/7/2009 Information on upcoming Workshop on Modeling Spatial Cognition on the Conferences Workshops page: Calls for Participation and Workshops.
03/7/2009 Dedre Gentner's talk from the Virtual Colloquium now has audio attached to the slides. Please, check it out under Resources on our Talks page.
03/6/2009 We have a new section under Resources: Talks (audio/slides/video/etc.). The two talks currently on that page are both from the Virtual Colloquium on Cognitive Modeling: (1) Analogical Learning, Dedre Gentner, Northwestern University and (2) Qualitative modeling of common sense understanding, Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern University.
03/4/2009 Two papers by Andrew Lovett, et al, Northwestern University and one paper, plus a presentation by Jon Wetzel, et al, Northwestern University, have been added to our Publications page.
03/3/2009 View our March Showcase: Spatial Training (Nora Newcombe, et al, Temple University).
02/27/2009 Welcome to our new Spatial Network Member: Carol Lawton, University of Indiana-Purde University Fort Wayne. Our Bibliography page has also been up-dated with citations of her work.
02/27/2009 Our Bibliography page has been up-dated with citations from Tim Welsh--one of our Spatial Network members--University of Calgary, Canada.
02/27/2009 Our March Showcase is now viewable along with our February Showcase. There is now a Showcase Archive as well.
02/25/2009 Our Press Room has been up-dated with the discovery of mentions in the blogosphere of Kenneth Forbus' 2002 virtual talk on modeling qualitative physics. A viable link to the actual talk is still being researched and will be added when that's found (any leads are appreciated).
02/25/2009 Two new post-doc positions available through Brown University. Please, see our Job opportunities page.
02/25/2009 Deadline date for a call for papers has been changed. Please, see our Conferences/Meetings page.
02/24/2009 Welcome to our new SILC staff member: Emily Ward.
02/19/2009 To our SILC Members: Our wiki has been streamlined! If you haven't been on the SILC wiki in more than a day, take a few moments to browse the reorganized site.
02/19/2009 See updates on our Calls and Conferences page (COSIT'09 and AGILE'09 added).
02/19/2009 Info on a week-long summer school session at The University of Iowa: Dynamic Field Theory. June 8-12, 2009. In our Classes section.
02/06/2009 Opening our website will no longer re-size your browser window! Enjoy!
02/04/2009 The glitch with the Showcase page is fixed (thanks to Jeff Usher). The page is viewable in any browser now. Please, continue to let me know if there are any problems with any of the pages on our website. Thank you!
02/04/2009 When you view our Showcase page, there is a problem viewing Figure 2 in most browsers (it displays fine in Firefox). This problem is being looked into. Thanks for your patience.
01/28/2009 Mental Rotation Stimuli from Giorgio Ganis, Harvard Medical School is now on-line. You can navigate to this in our menu by scrolling over the Resources tab and clicking on Tests & Instruments.
01/21/2009 Thomas Wolbers, one of our Spatial Network Members, has moved to a new institution. His up-dated information can be found on our Network Members page. Also, another one of his papers has been added to our Bibliography page: Wolbers, T., Hegarty, M., Büchel, C. & Loomis, J. (2008). Spatial updating: how the brain keeps track of changing object locations during observer motion. Nature Neuroscience, 11(10), 1223-1230.
01/21/2009 Schedule for the Spring Seminar Series is now on-line.
01/16/2009 A job listing for a post-doctoral researcher has been added to our Job Opportunities page.
01/15/2009 The Faculty section of our SILC Members People page is now finished. More links were added and slight formatting changes were made.
0/15/2009 Please, welcome to our Network: William Warren, Jr., Hong-Jin Sun, Cathy Reed and Martin Tomko. There are now 223 members in our Spatial Network! Our Bibliography page is up-dated as well.
1/14/2009 Check out all the PRESS coverage for Ratliff, K.R. and Newcombe, N.S. (2008). Reorienting When Cues Conflict: Evidence for an Adaptive-Combination View. Psychological Science, 19(12), 1301-1307.
1/13/2009 Information for the June 2nd workshop: Adaptation in Spatial Communication is here. The workshop Call for Papers is here.
1/09/2009 The page from the November Workshop on Spatial Learning in Geography (Washington, D.C.) has been up-dated: (1) Paricipant Biographies (now found under "pre-Workshop Documents"), (2) Workshop Presentations (new category) and (3) Notes on the Workshop (new category)
1/07/2009 A new call for papers can be found on our Conferences/Meetings page. Deadline date is: July 1, 2009 for a special issue for the journal, Spatial Cognition and Computation.
2008
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 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.
11/20/2008 Please, welcome Dale S. Klopfer to our Network. There are now 198 members in our Spatial Network!
11/19/2008 Welcome to our new SILC Undergraduate Members: Jennifer Conner, Sarah Hittinger, Rania McCauley, Maria Namowicz, Katherine Nescio, Teuta Pasholli, Eman Saleh, Caryn Trasken and Allison Wolkin.
11/12/2008 We have added a blurb in our Press Room on Tim Shipley's research on using point-light displays for studying perceptual form processing. Some of the displays from the archive will be featured in a small segment on an upcoming Discovery Channel program, "The Science of Sex Appeal."
11/12/2008 Information about the Research in Spatial Cognition Lab (RISC) added to our Members page.
11/12/2008 Call for Papers:Spatial Cognition and Computation: Special Issue on You-Are-Here Maps --Creating Spatial Awareness through Map-like Representations
11/11/2008 Please, welcome our new SILC Postdocs: Andrea Frick and Daniele Nardi of Temple University.
11/05/2008 UPDATE:Two documents for the Spatial Learning in Geography Workshop have been up-dated and are now available.
11/04/2008 UPDATE: Some documents for the Spatial Learning in Geography Workshop will be up-dated/corrected and put on-line on Wednesday, 11/5/08.
10/29/2008 Please, welcome our new SILC Postdocs: Erica Cartmill and Liesje Spaepen.
10/29/2008 Please, welcome Ramon E. Lopez to our Network. There are now 199 members in our Spatial Network!
10/28/2008 Three articles where SILC is in the press have been placed in our PRESS ROOM. More articles (current and past) will be added to this new page.
10/28/2008 The Spatial Assessment Battery portion of our project has been removed from the site. You may need to refresh/up-date your SILC links.
10/20/2008 Please, welcome Alexander Chaucer to our Network. There are now 198 members in our Spatial Network!
10/20/2008 Info about the Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop in Sardinia is now up on our meeting page.
10/17/2008 There have been many links added on our Spatial Network page. More will be added during the coming week. As always, please let me know if an active link is not working:
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: .
09/18/2008 SILC Faculty emails have been added to our site.
09/17/2008 Advisory Board emails have been added to our site.
09/16/2008 Links added to the Advisory Board section on our SILC People page.
09/11/2008 Three publications (lead author: John Philbeck) added to the Bibliography page.
09/11/2008 Some .pdf icon documents (particularly on job opportunities page) were not opening properly (if you clicked on the icon, a message asking for your login popped up). These should be all fixed by today. As always, please continue to let Jenn Stedillie/ know about any questions/concerns you have with this new website. Thank you!
09/03/2008 Resizing of page will only happen when you first open the SILC site. Manual resizing will now keep.
09/03/2008 Elizabeth Hickey has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
09/02/2008 NOTE: The SILC website was down until early afternoon today.
08/28/2008 NOTE: The SILC website and the SILC wiki will be unavailable for "Labor Day" Weekend starting Friday afternoon August 29th through 10:00 pm on Monday, September 1st.
08/26/2008 There are now 196 members in our Spatial Network!
08/21/2008 The search box above is working again.
08/18/2008 The photo gallery has been up-dated with a couple of photos from the AAAI Intelligent Systems Demo.
08/18/2008 Dominique W. Dumay and Christopher J. Schilling have both joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
08/14/2008 Publications page up-dated from Annual Report.
08/14/2008 More citations added to the Bibliography page.
08/13/2008 There are now 195 members in our Spatial Network!
08/11/2008 Our website was temporarily unavailable Friday evening August 8th. The tech support team at Northwestern University was able to get our internet access reconnected in the span of a few hours. All service should be running smoothly now.
08/11/2008 Please continue to send Jenn Stedillie notifications of links that aren't working that you need to use right away. She is going through links and checking connections through this week. After this week, be sure to let the know of any links that are still not opening correctly.
08/08/2008 SILC People page has been up-dated. Publications page has been up-dated (more publications will be added next week as well).
08/08/2008 Elise Krause (Northwestern University) has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
08/08/2008 Information added to Asifa Majid's entry on our Spatial Network members page; also a relevant paper by Majid, A., et al added to the Bibliography page.
08/07/2008 The photo gallery has changed. Mouseover and plain html versions available on same page.
08/01/2008 We've added a photo gallery to our website under our Resources menu! More info about the pictures and more pictures will be added as we receive them.
07/31/2008 Our new website is up and running. There are still links that may need to be fixed because of some restructuring that has happened. This will get cleaned up during the next couple of weeks (as well as a bit of tweaking here and there). Please, let Jenn Stedillie know if there is a link you need to get to right away.
07/14/2008 Pennsylvania Governor Rendell and US Congressman Joe Sestak have both issued press releases regarding the recent $10 million award.
07/08/2008 Two of our Co-P.I.s and their research, Dedre Gentner and Susan Goldin-Meadow, are mentioned in The New York Times article, "When Language Can Hold the Answer."
07/01/2008 $10 million Awarded to Pennsylvania Schools and Universities.
07/01/2008 Katrina Ferrara has joined our SILC Staff. Welcome!
05/06/2008 The link to the 2006 National Academies of Science report: "Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum" has been added to our Publications News page. If you peruse our Resources page (found in our menu on the left side of this page) you will find a description of the Publications News page (we welcome suggestions for more additions to that page), as well as a host of other helpful resources and tools relevant to this site.
2/18/2008 Our meeting page has been up-dated with info on a conference: The INS and OUTS of Spatial Learning: From Theory to Practice. This will be at University of Chicago's Gleacher Center in June.
2/18/2008 Our meeting page has been up-dated with info on an Advanced Training Institute on Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research. This will be at the University of California, Santa Barbara in July.
1/24/2008 A list of some of Susanna Millar's (one of our Network Members) publications has been added to the Bibliography page.
1/15/2008 A link for SROP at Temple can be found here as well as in the left side menu.
1/15/2008REMINDER:Information about the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is on the Links page under "Other Research/Miscellaneous." Information specific to Northwestern can be found here. There are now links for this in the menu on the left side of this webpage.
2007
12/19/2007 Information about the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) is on the Links page under "Other Research/Miscellaneous." Information specific to Northwestern can be found here.
11/30/2007 The Links page has been up-dated with many more links compiled from our website. There is also a brief site map for our website.
11/28/2007 There are now 156 members in our Spatial Network!
11/27/2007 SILC project members: Please note that there is a new section on our wiki devoted to spatial job opportunities: SLC Job Postings. You must be logged on to the wiki in order to view this.
11/27/2007 Info on the International Spatial Cognition Conference (SC'08) has been added to the Calls page.
11/19/2007 At long last our Publications link is now active. Please, visit that link to see what SILC has generated in terms of Publications, Presentations,and other generated resources.
11/13/2007 SILC Celebrates Opening at Temple University. See our Press Release.
11/13/2007 To SILC project members: I will be adding your access to the SLCnetwork wiki (i.e. the wiki for all the NSF Science of Learning Centers). When you are added you should receive an automatically generated email. Please email me on Thursday 11/15/07 if you have not received an email.
11/13/2007 The website menu on the left-hand side of the webpage has been up-dated and the order of menu choices has changed slightly.
11/8/2007 A link to the SLCnetwork wiki has been added to the left menu of this site (you must be a SILC project member to access pages other than the Main page)!
11/7/2007 Two new SILC project members from Northwestern University have been added to our People page.
11/1/2007 The Cognition and Communication Research Centre of Northumbria Unversity officially opens on the 3rd of December. The invitation to the lecture/opening is on the meetings site under upcoming meetings.
09/05/2007 There are now 131 members in our Spatial Network!
09/04/2007 There are now 129 members in our Spatial Network!
09/04/2007 Our servers were down during the Labor Day weekend. SILC Members: The SILC wiki is now accessible as of 12:15pm CST.
08/30/2007 Check out the up-dates to the Children's Mental Transformation Task section of the Resources page. The task instrument has been up-dated and an excel document has been added.
08/30/2007 There are now 124 members in our Spatial Network!
08/28/2007SPRING Lecture SeriesSchedule (be sure to look at our Fall Lecture Series line-up on this page):
February 2008
2/14 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Ben Kuipers
2/21 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Timothy McNamara
2/28 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Tversky
March 2008
3/6 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
3/20 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Nadel
3/27 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Frances Wang
April 2008
4/3 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
4/10 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Bill Warren
4/17 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
4/24 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Dan Montello
May 2008
5/1 Temple University Spring Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: TBA
08/28/2007 Current meetings/calls for participation that may be of interest to our Spatial Network Members, may be found here. This page also has a link on our Resources page.
08/28/2007 There are now 117 members in our Spatial Network.
08/22/2007 UPDATE FALL Lecture Series Schedule:
October 2007
10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
November 2007
11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
08/17/2007 There are now 116 members in our Spatial Network.
08/15/2007 There are two more SILC staff members and one more SILC graduate student.
08/10/2007 There are now 115 members in our Spatial Network. There are also two more SILC staff members and four more SILC undergraduate students.
08/10/2007UPDATE Fall Lecture Series Schedule:
October
10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
November
11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
08/03/2007 There are now 114 members in our Spatial Network.
07/19/2007 There are now 113 members in our Spatial Network.
07/17/2007 There are now 109 members in our Spatial Network. Visit the Spatial Network Members page. The Bibliography page has also been up-dated. Note that a distribution email list has been made for the Network members. Information regarding this list will be sent to the network members soon.
07/17/2007 Information about the Visualization Assessment and Training (VIZ) website has been added to the Resources page.
07/13/2007 Fall Lecture Series Schedule (more info coming):
October
10/1: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Jack Loomis
10/8: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Barbara Landau
10/15: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Liz Spelke
10/22: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Verne Bingman
November
11/5: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Lynn Liben
11/7: Temple University Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Mike Goodchild
11/12: University of Chicago Fall Lecture Series, Invited Speaker: Steve Kosslyn
07/12/2007 Video Game Experience survey added to the Resources page. Also, soon to be posted: info on our Fall 2007 speakers.
07/11/2007 This website is continually evolving. Check-out the following recent changes on this site:
There is a new Resources page, which has been recently updated. There will be additions made to the Resources page in the coming weeks.
Check out the Bibliography page. It contains relevant reference materials cited and/or published by our SILC members, as well as relevant works published by our Network members.
04/19/2007 News article in the Northwestern Observer: How do humans process information? (.html file.pdf file)
NEW RELEASE: CogSketch v1.22 (7/16/2010) (download here)
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).
8/31/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Sarah Anderson, Demis Basso, Melanie Busch, Elisabetta Carattin, Josh Coyan, Klaus Kessler, Parisa Kordjamhsidi, Xiaoou Li, Steve Marchette, Chiara Meneghetti, Susan Metheny, Jonna Nilsson, John Pani, Stephen Reynolds, Teya Rutherford, Chiara Saracini, Richard Sproat & Steven Thrash
8/17/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Mark Gahegan, Werner Kuhn, Ben Kuipers, David Mark & Juval Portugali
8/10/2010 Please, welcome our new Spatial Network Members: Ruth Conroy Dalton, Vinod Goel, Gabi Goldschmidt, Christian S. Jensen, Hua Lu, Franziska Preusse, Kai-Florian Richter, Rudi Stouffs, David Szymanski & Lisa Yu
8/10/2010 A new resource has been added to our Links page: ESRI GIS Education Community website.
8/06/2010 New job opportunity: Senior Research Scientist, Cognition, Educational Testing Service (ETS).
7/31/2010> Our August SILC Showcase is now on-line.
added to the Bibliography page.
