[CogSci] Extended CfP: Impact of Visuospatial Skills on Learning, Riga, Oct, Nov, 2017

[Jurgis Skilters]

Extended 
Call for Papers

12th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication

Impact of Visuospatial Skills on Learning

http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-international-symposium/

Symposium and Workshop
at the Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of 
Computing,
University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
October 31, November 1, 2017

Co-Organizers: Faculty of Computing & Faculty of Business, Management 
and Economics
University of Latvia


According to recent evidence from psychology and learning science 
visuospatial skills are critical components in learning and might be a 
significant predictor of success in learning. Furthermore, external 
visuospatial representations scaffold variety of internal processes of 
reasoning ranging from everyday tasks to highly complex processes.

This symposium will focus on the following topics (but are not limited 
to):

a.     Impact of visuospatial skills on the processes of learning in 
STEM fields

b.     The nature and dynamics of visuospatial skills and their place in 
the larger context of cognitive processes

c.     The role of visualizations in cognitive processes as scaffolding 
tools and expressive media.

d.     Visuospatial reasoning, its semantics, qualitative and 
quantitative representation.

e.     Verbal and nonverbal processes in visuospatial reasoning

f.      Visuospatial processes in logic and formal sciences


We welcome contributions from fields including cognitive science, 
psychology, learning science, linguistics, computer science, and 
philosophy.

Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome.


2-page anonymous abstracts (12 point) for a talk of 30 minutes (+10 
minutes discussion) should be submitted by September 25 by sending them 
to lpcs at lu.lv
with
'Paper Riga 2014'
on the subject line.
Submissions have to be prepared as pdf files.

(Those authors that will submit until September 15 will be notified 
regarding their acceptance within a week after submission; those who 
will submit by September 25 will be notified until the end of 
September.)


A limited number of papers will be selected for presentation at the 
symposium and considered for inclusion in the proceedings in the Baltic 
International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 
(http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/; 
instructions: http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/policies.html) or Baltic 
Journal of Modern Computing 
(http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/instructions-to-authors/)


Keynote speakers (alphabetically):

Bob Coecke,
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK

Mike Stieff,
Department of Chemistry, Learning Sciences Research Institute
University of Illinois-Chicago, IL, USA

David H. Uttal,
School of Education and Social Policy & Department of Psychology 
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA


Program Committee:

Andris Ambainis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Ivars Austers, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Signe Bāliņa, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Michael Glanzberg, Northwestern University, USA
Nora Newcombe, Temple University, USA
Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Jurģis Šķilters, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
David Uttal, Northwestern University, USA
Yoad Winter, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Joost Zwarts,  Utrecht University, The Netherlands



Support: University of Latvia Foundation, ACCENTURE.


 Additional information:

lpcs at lu.lv or jurgis.skilters at lu.lv

http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/
http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-international-symposium/