Topics (further topics are welcome):
- Theoretical foundations and historical development of situated cognition
- Neuroscience of spatial and situated cognition
- Space and situated cognition in different cognitive processes
- Individual differences in spatial and situated cognition
- Spatial cognition in virtual reality
- Situated models of spatial cognition
- Situated robotics
- Situated cognition and applied research
- Situated cognition in architecture
- Spatial situated cognition in arts
Keynote Speakers:
- Yan Bao (Peking University)
“Spatial attention is eccentricity dependent: Where something is, matters!”
- William J. Clancey (Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition)
“Spatial Conception of Activities: A Socio-Cognitive Perspective for Simulating Work Practices”
- Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)
“Intersubjective relations in lived space and instituted space”
- Vittorio Gallese (University of Parma)
“Embodied simulation and the space around us: The perspective of cognitive neuroscience”
- Sergei Gepshtein (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
“Solid field of sensitivity: perceptual structure of immersive space”
- Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
“How our hands help us spatialize”
- Kevin O’Regan (University of Paris V)
Scientific Committee:
Elsa Addessi (Rome); Gabriella Antonucci (Rome); Antonio Jesus Bandera Rubio (Malaga); Anna Belardinelli (Tübingen); Anna M. Borghi (Bologne); Riccardo Brunetti (Rome); Martin Butz (Tübingen); Andrea Carbone (Paris);Maria Casagrande (Rome); Alessandro D’Ausilio (Genoa); Khuloud Dajani (Jerusalem); Franco Delogu (Detroit); Michel Denis (Paris); Stefano Federici (Perugia); Ken Forbus (Evanston); Joanna Ganczarek (Kraków); Dedre Gentner (Evanston); Stephen Hirtle (Pittsburgh);Ola Hussein (Jerusalem); Tina Iachini (Naples); Alexander Klippel (State College); Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld); Daniele Nardi (Charleston); Davide Nardo (Rome); Nora Newcombe (Philadelphia); Massimiliano Palmiero (L’Aquila); Francesca Pazzaglia (Padova); Alberto Priori (Milan); Anne Reboul (Lyon); Valerio Santangelo (Perugia); Marcia Scherer (Syracuse); Annika Schlitte (Eichstätt); Luca Simione (Rome); Narayanan Srinivasan (Allahabad); Boris Suchan (Bochum); Barbara Tversky (Stanford); David Uttal (Evanston); Cees van Leeuwen (Leuven); Joan Vickers (Calgary).
Organizing Committee:
R. Brumarescu, L. Calabrese, C. Esposito, A. Giannandrea, M. Gravina, I.S. Khanyaree, M. L. Mele, R. Meloni, A. Riccio, A. Rizza, D. Scaringi, V. Tierno, A. Sabiniewicz,
Presidential Board: Marta Olivetti Belardinelli (Rome), Thomas Hünefeldt (Rome/Eichstätt), Antonino Raffone (Rome)
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