<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Extended </span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Call for Papers</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">12th International Symposium o</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">f Cognition, Logic and Communi</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">cation</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Impact of Visuospatial Skills </span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">on Learning</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-international-symposium/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.lpcs.lu.lv/12th-int<wbr>ernational-symposium/</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Symposium and Workshop</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">at the Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Latvia, Riga, La</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">tvia</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">October 31, November 1, 2017</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Co-Organizers: Faculty of Computing & Faculty of Business, Management and Economics</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Latvia</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">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="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This symposium will focus on the following topics (but are not limited to):</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">a.     Impact of visuospatial skills on the processes of learning in STEM fields</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">b.     The nature and dynamics of visuospatial skills and their place in the larger context of cognitive processes</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">c.     The role of visualizations in cognitive processes as scaffolding tools and expressive media.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">d.     Visuospatial reasoning, its semantics, qualitative and quantitative representation.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">e.     Verbal and nonverbal pr</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ocesses in visuospatial reason</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ing</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">f.      Visuospatial processes</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> in logic and formal sciences</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">We welcome contributions from fields including cognitive science, psychology, learning science, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Interdisciplinary contribution</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">s are especially welcome.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2-page anonymous abstracts (12 point) for a talk of 30 minutes (+10 minutes discussion) should be submitted by <b><font color="#ff0000">September 25</font></b> by sending them to </span><a href="mailto:lpcs@lu.lv" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">lpcs@lu.lv</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">with</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">'Paper Riga 2014'</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">on the subject line.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Submissions have to be prepare</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">d as pdf files.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(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.)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">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 href="http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://newprairiepress.org/bi<wbr>yclc/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">; instructions: </span><a href="http://newprairiepress.org/biyclc/policies.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://newprairi<wbr>epress.org/biyclc/policies.<wbr>html</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">) or Baltic Journal of Modern Computing (</span><a href="http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/instructions-to-authors/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://www.bjmc.lu.lv/instruc<wbr>tions-to-authors/</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Keynote speakers (alphabetical</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ly):</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Bob Coecke,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Department of Computer Science</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">, University of Oxford, UK</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Mike Stieff,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Department of Chemistry, Learn</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ing Sciences Research Institut</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">e</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of Illinois-Chicago</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">, IL, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">David H. Uttal,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">School of Education and Social Policy & Department of Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Program Committee:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Andris Ambainis, University of</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ivars Austers, University of L</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">atvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Signe Bāliņa, University of La</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">tvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Michael Glanzberg, Northwester</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">n University, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Nora Newcombe, Temple Universi</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ty, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Susan Rothstein, Bar-Ilan Univ</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ersity, Israel</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jurģis Šķilters, University of</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Latvia, Riga, Latvia</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">David Uttal, Northwestern Univ</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ersity, USA</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Yoad Winter, Utrecht Universit</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">y, The Netherlands</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Joost Zwarts,  Utrecht Univers</span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">ity, The Netherlands</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Support: University of Latvia </span><wbr style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Foundation, ACCENTURE.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Additional information:</span><br style="font-size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