<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleague, <br><br></div>We would like to remind you that abstract submission for the <b><i>7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Spatial Cognition in a Multimedia and Intercultural World </i>(ICSC 2018)</b>, will close by January 28, 2018. For details on abstract submission, please go to <span style="line-height:normal"><span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></span><a href="http://www.icsc-rome.org/submission/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>http://www.icsc-rome.org/submi<wbr>ssion/</span></span></b></a></span></span> . <br><br>The conference will take place in Rome on Sept. 10-14, 2018. For details, please see below and the attached pdf. <br><br><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:22px;text-align:center"><p><font size="2"><b>2^nd Call for Abstract Submissions</b></font></p></div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="width:600px"><img alt="" title="" src="https://topolio.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/5a5ce11649ff2/1516036495.jpg" style="border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;border-radius:0px;display:block;font-size:13px;outline:medium none currentcolor;text-decoration:none;width:100%;height:auto" class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-CToWUd m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-a6T m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-CToWUd m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-a6T m_-5507989681358408347gmail-CToWUd m_-5507989681358408347gmail-a6T" width="600" height="auto"></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:22px;text-align:justify"><div class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994WordSection1"><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>The <b><i>7^th International Conference on Spatial Cognition</i> (ICSC 2018) </b>will be devoted to <i>Spatial Cognition in a Multimedia and Intercultural World</i>,
 exploring the links between the general topic of the conference and the
 challenges introduced by the new media and increasing intercultural 
exchange. </span></span></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span><br></span></span></b></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Conference website: </span></span><a href="http://www.icsc-rome.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>http://www.icsc-rome.org</span></span></a></b></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span><br></span></span></u></b></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Keynotes:</span></span></u></b></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Marisa Carrasco</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (New York University)<a name="m_-5507989681358408347_m_4993329943501548093_m_367114366578884204_m_2921127073408836786_m_1315145477116639994__Hlk503617448">:<b> </b>– Title will be announced soon</a> – <b> </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Michael Corballis</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (University of Auckland): <i>Space, Time and Language</i></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Pierre Dasen</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>University of Geneva</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>):<b> </b><i>Cross-cultural research on spatial concept development </i></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Alan Dix</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>University of Birmingham</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>): <i>Space, time and memory: tales from a long road</i></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Christoph Hoelscher</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (ETH Zurich): – Title will be announced soon –<b> </b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Robert K. Logan</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>University of Toronto</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>): <i>Visual and Acoustic Space in the Digital Age</i></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>Asifa Majid</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> (</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="NL"><span>Radboud University</span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>): – Title will be announced soon –</span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>John K. Tsotsos</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span> (York University): <i>Attention is More Important for Visual Cognition and Reasoning Than You Think</i></span></span></span></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span><br></span></span></u></b></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Symposia:</span></span></u></b></p></div><p><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>How do we make sense of space through its artistic representation? Space and embodiment in visual art </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>:<b> </b>Joanna Ganczarek and Nicole Ruta)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>The Roles of Multimodality in Spatializing Reasoning and Learning </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Kenneth Forbus, Dedre Gentner,<b> </b>Susan Levine and Anthony Cohn)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Spatial representations: new perspectives for studying age-related differences</span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Veronica Muffato, Chiara Meneghetti and Jan Wiener)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Mental Rotation, Part 1: Developmental Aspects of Mental Rotation </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Petra Jansen and Claudia Quaiser)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Mental Rotation, Part 2: Correlates of Mental Rotation and Methodological Issues </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Claudia Quaiser-Pohl and Petra Jansen)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Beyond the video: naturalistic approaches to examining social motor behavior </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenor</i>: Arran Reader)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Individual differences in search and foraging </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Alastair Smith and Carlo De Lillo)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Cross-Cultural, Cross-Modal and Cross-Species’ Spatial Perception and Action in Virtual and<br>Real Environments</span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>:<b> </b>Francine Dolins, Mark Lindquist and Brent Chamberlain)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>The nature of the space around the body: a comparison of real and virtual environments </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Tina Iachini and Gennaro Ruggiero)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>From fieldwork to modelling: Explaining the variability of linguistic spatial referencing systems </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Roberta Rocca, Jonas Nölle and Michael Spranger)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>The body in space </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Xaver Fuchs, Jörg Trojan, Christopher Milde, Konstantina Kilteni, Antonella Maselli and Luigi Tamè)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>New issues in attentional control </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Stefano Lasaponara, Maria Casagrande and Fabrizio Doricchi)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Spatial and non-spatial representation of number magnitudes </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenors</i>: Fabrizio Doricchi and Wim Fias)</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Minds. Movement. Moving Image (Part I): On Spatial Cognition and the Built Environment </span></span></b><br><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>(<i>Convenor</i>: Mehul Bhatt)</span></span></span></span></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Minds. Movement. Moving Image (Part II):</span></span></b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span> <b>On Visuo-Auditory Perception and the Moving Image </b><br>(</span></span><i><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Convenor</span></span></i><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>: Mehul Bhatt)</span></span></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span><br></span></span></u></b></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-top:6pt;text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Submission Deadlines:</span></span></u></b></p><p class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-m_1315145477116639994MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Abstracts of single contributions to symposia: <b>January 28, 2018</b></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Abstracts of talks and posters: <b>January 28, 2018</b></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please follow the instructions given on<b> </b></span></span><a href="http://www.icsc-rome.org/submission/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>http://www.icsc-rome.org/submi<wbr>ssion/</span></span></b></a></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span><br></span></span></u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>Tutorials and Workshops:</span></span></u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>You are welcome to submit your tutorial or workshop proposal to </span></span><a href="mailto:icsc.rome@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>icsc.rome@gmail.com</span></span></b></a><b> </b><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-US"><span>. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt"><span><br></span></span></u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><b><u><span style="font-size:9pt"><span>Presidential Board:</span></span></u></b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt"><span>Gabriella Antonucci, Maria Casagrande, Tiziana Catarci, Thomas Hünefeldt, Antonino Raffone,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size:9pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span>Marta Olivetti Belardinelli (Honorary President)</span></span></span></p></div><img alt="" title="" src="https://topolio.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/5a5ce11649ff2/1516036670.jpg" style="border-color:currentcolor;border-style:none;border-width:medium;border-radius:0px;display:block;font-size:13px;outline:medium none currentcolor;text-decoration:none;width:100%;height:auto" class="m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-CToWUd m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-m_2921127073408836786gmail-a6T m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-CToWUd m_-5507989681358408347gmail-m_4993329943501548093gmail-m_367114366578884204gmail-a6T m_-5507989681358408347gmail-CToWUd m_-5507989681358408347gmail-a6T" width="600" height="auto"></div>