ICSC 2012 - 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Space and Embodied Cognition

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Category ICSC 2012

Deadline: January 31, 2012 | Date: September 04, 2012-September 08, 2012

Venue/Country: Rome, Italy

Updated: 2011-10-12 13:45:52 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

We are pleased to announce the 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC2012). The conference will take place on September 4-8, 2012, and will be hosted by ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome.

This time the conference will be devoted to Space and Embodied Cognition, thus exploring the links between the general topic of the conference and an emergent paradigm of the cognitive sciences.

In order to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and spread new, innovative research on spatial cognition, all space-related disciplines and approaches (behavioral, cognitive, computational, developmental, engineering, neuroanatomical, physiological, social, etc.) will be considered.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Body awareness in spatial cognition and action

Bottom-up and top-down models of spatial cognition

Connectionist approaches to embodied spatial cognition

Cross-modal binding in embodied spatial cognition

Cultural differences in embodied spatial cognition

Dynamical systems approaches to spatial cognition

Embodied cognition of peripersonal and extrapersonal space

Embodied cognition and applied research

Embodied cognition, creativity and art

Embodied spatial cognition in development and aging

Embodied spatial cognition in disabilitity or mental disorder

Embodiment and sensorimotor behavior

Embodiment and virtual reality

Embodiment of spatial concepts and categorisations

Embodiment of spatial mental imagery

Gender differences in embodied spatial cognition

Neuropsychology of embodied spatial cognition

Number, quantity and embodied spatial cognition

Situated robotics

Space and embodied cognition of emotion

Space and embodiment in animal cognition

Space, time, and the continuity of mind

Spatial variables in embodied social cognition

Suggestions for further topics are welcome.

Scientific Committee

Marta Olivetti Belardinelli (President); Thomas Hünefeldt (President of the Organizing Committee); Antonio Jesus Bandera Rubio; Anna M. Borghi; Alessandro D’Ausilio; Franco Delogu; Michel Denis; Dina Di Giacomo; Stefano Federici; Ken Forbus; Christian Freksa; Dedre Gentner; Cecilia Guariglia; Stephen Hirtle; Christoph Hoelscher; Tina Iachini; Elisabetta Ladavas; Emiliano Macaluso; Hanspeter Mallot; Daniele Nardi; Davide Nardo; Nora Newcombe; Massimiliano Palmiero; Francesca Pazzaglia; Albert Postma; Alberto Priori; Antonino Raffone; Valerio Santangelo; Marcia Scherer; Kerstin Schill; Werner Schneider; Thomas Shipley; Narayanan Srinivasan; Boris Suchan; Barbara Tversky; Cees van Leeuwen.

Organizing Committee

Marta Olivetti Belardinelli (President), Thomas Hünefeldt (President of the Organizing Committee), Pietro Caggiano, Simona Di Francesco, Dina Di Giacomo, Alessandro Giannandrea, Federica Donzello, Federica Mauro, Maria Laura Mele, Roberta Meloni, Davide Nardo, Linda Pecoriello, Giorgia Ponsi, Antonino Raffone, Angela Riccio, Valerio Santangelo, Selene Scozzafava, Luca Simione