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

5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: “Space and Embodied Cognition”. September 4-8, 2012; Rome (Italy)

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