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Calls for Papers/Participation

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.

Lecture Series

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

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 Open .pdf document added to the Bibliography page.

08/08/2008
There is a new Call for Papers here.

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.

08/01/2008
Open job positions added to our Jobs Opportunities page.

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.

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