International workshop on

Spatial and Visual Components in Mental Reasoning
about Large-Scale Spaces

to be held at the

International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute (ISCSI)

01-02 Sept 2003
Bad Zwischenahn, Germany

Call for papers - Spatial Cognition and Computation: Special issue on "Spatial and visual components in mental reasoning about large-scale space"

The investigation of cognitive representation and the processing of visuo-spatial information is currently pursued from multi-disciplinary perspectives:

Cognitive psychologists empirically investigate how spatial and visual information is processed in human memory, i.e. what are the characteristics of each type of information processing and how do they interact with each other?

Cognitive neuroscientists are interested in how visual and spatial information is processed in the brain, and which neural processes underlie visual and spatial thinking.

Computer scientists in artificial intellingence aim at modeling spatial and visual information processing in qualitative spatial reasoning and in diagrammmatic reasoning, both theoretically and application-driven.

In this workshop, researchers from the diverse disciplines investigating visuo-spatial information processing will come together to discuss results, to identify open issues, and to work out research perspectives for visuo-spatial mental reasoning.

Workshop Program

01 Sept 2003

14:30	Introduction
14:40	Fred Mast (University of Zurich): Shared mechanisms used in visuo-spatial imagery and perception
15:15	Markus Knauff (University of Oldenburg & University of Freiburg): The role of visual and spatial representations: What we can learn about large-scale spatial reasoning from experiments in small scale space
15:50	Verena Gottschling (University of Mainz): Visual representations in cognition
16:25	Coffee break
16:45	Gottfried Vosgerau (University of Freiburg): The spatial nature of mental models
17:20	Thomas Barkowsky, Sven Bertel, Dominik Engel, Christian Freksa (University of Bremen): Design of an architecture for reasoning with mental images
17:55	Georg Jahn (Technical University of Chemnitz): Hybrid representation of spatial descriptions

02 Sept 2003

14:30	Merideth Gattis (University of Cardiff): Are reasoning with large-scale and small-scale space different?
15:05	Jack Loomis (UC Santa Barbara): The role of body-based cues in navigation and environmental learning
15:40	Marios Avraamides (UC Santa Barbara): Spatial updating with linguistically-encoded scenes
16:15	Coffee break
16:35	Christoph Schlieder (University of Bamberg)
17:10	Final Discussion

Ressources:

Download workshop reader (version: 22 Aug 2003)
List of participants
Getting to Bad Zwischenahn
Information on the International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute
new: Audio recordings of talks and discussions

Organization:

Thomas Barkowsky   (University of Bremen)
Christian Freksa   (University of Bremen)
Markus Knauff    (University of Oldenburg & University of Freiburg)
Sven Bertel    (University of Bremen)
Dominik Engel    (University of Bremen)

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