<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">First Call for Papers</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">12th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Impact of Visuospatial Skills on Learning</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-international-symposium/" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-international-symposium/</a></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Symposium and Workshop</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">at the Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">October 31, November 1, 2017</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">Co-Organizers: Faculty of Computing & Faculty of Business, Management and Economics</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">University of Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">This symposium will focus on the following topics (but are not limited to):</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">a.     Impact of visuospatial skills on the processes of learning in STEM fields</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">b.     The nature and dynamics of visuospatial skills and their place in the larger context of cognitive processes</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">c.     The role of visualizations in cognitive processes as scaffolding tools and expressive media.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">d.     Visuospatial reasoning, its semantics, qualitative and quantitative representation.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">e.     Verbal and nonverbal processes in visuospatial reasoning</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">f.      Visuospatial processes in logic and formal sciences</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">We welcome contributions from fields including cognitive science, psychology, learning science, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">2-page anonymous abstracts (12 point) for a talk of 30 minutes (+10 minutes discussion) should be submitted by September 15 by sending them to </span><a href="mailto:lpcs@lu.lv" style="color:rgb(1,134,186);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">lpcs@lu.lv</a><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">with</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">'Paper Riga 2014'</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">on the subject line.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Submissions have to be prepared as pdf files.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">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 (</span><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/" style="color:rgb(1,134,186);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">; instructions: </span><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/policies.html" style="color:rgb(1,134,186);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/policies.html</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">) or Baltic Journal of Modern Computing (</span><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/instructions-to-authors/" style="color:rgb(1,134,186);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/instructions-to-authors/</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Keynote speakers (alphabetically):</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Bob Coecke,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Mike Stieff,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Department of Chemistry, Learning Sciences Research Institute</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">University of Illinois-Chicago, IL, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">David H. Uttal,</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px">School of Education and Social Policy & Department of Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Program Committee:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Andris Ambainis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Ivars Austers, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Signe Bāliņa, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Michael Glanzberg, Northwestern University, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Nora Newcombe, Temple University, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan University, Israel</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Jurģis Šķilters, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">David Uttal, Northwestern University, USA</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Yoad Winter, Utrecht University, The Netherlands</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Joost Zwarts,  Utrecht University, The Netherlands</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap">Support: University of Latvia Foundation, ACCENTURE.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"> Additional information:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="mailto:lpcs@lu.lv" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">lpcs@lu.lv</a> or <a href="mailto:jurgis.skilters@lu.lv" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">jurgis.skilters@lu.lv</a></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/</a></span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:monospace;font-size:13px;white-space:nowrap"><a rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-international-symposium/" style="color:rgb(1,134,186)">http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-int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