<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Linkages between Space and
Memory: Processes and Representations</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">15th </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">International Symposium of
Cognition, Logic and Communication</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">August 29, 2020</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Laboratory for Perceptual and
Cognitive Systems,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br>
<b>Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia</b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><a href="https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/upcoming-events/" style="color:blue">https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/upcoming-events/</a></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">  </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:rgb(46,116,181);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">About the Event</span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(32,32,30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Navigation and episodic memory
are core features of human cognitive processing. Although they seem very
different, research has revealed behavioral and neural linkages between the two
domains. This symposium aims to integrate perspectives from research in the two
areas, using techniques from psychology and neuroscience (as well as
linguistics, computer science, AI, and philosophy, depending on participants’
interests). The symposium will focus primarily on the following topics, but is
not limited to them:</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<ul style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm" type="square">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,49,48);line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Spatial context and memory</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,49,48);line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Episodic memory and
     spatial learning</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,49,48);line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Developmental trajectory
     of navigation and episodic memory</span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(51,49,48);line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Neural principles of
     navigation and episodic memory<br>
     <br>
     <br>
     </span></li>
</ul>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:rgb(46,116,181);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Keynotes: </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><b>Aidan Horner</b></span></u><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">York Episodic Memory Lab,
University of York, UK</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><b>Nora Newcombe </b></span></u><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Laura
H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Research in Spatial Cognition (RISC) Lab, </span></i><i style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Temple University, USA</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><b>Charan Ranganath</b></span></u><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.75pt;background:rgb(252,251,251);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dynamic Memory Lab, University
of California at Davis, USA</span></i><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(32,32,30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-family:Times;color:rgb(46,116,181);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Deadline for abstracts’
submission: April 15, 2020 </span></b><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Courier;color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be submitted by April
15, 2020 at </span><a href="http://visionscience.com/mailman/listinfo/visionlist_visionscience.com" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">lpcs@lu.lv</span></a><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">(Abstracts should contain a brief description of relevant theory,
research</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">design, methods, and results.) Authors will be notified at the end
of April.</span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(32,32,30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(32,32,30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span><span style="color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font size="1">The symposium is organized by
Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Computing,
University of Latvia in collaboration of and with support by Robert
Blumberg, Andrejs Eglīte, the non-profit organization “Friends of the
University of Latvia”, and the University of Latvia foundation.</font></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,49,48);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><font size="1">The conference will include the
annual Robert Blumberg Distinguished Lecture, founded and supported by Robert
Blumberg.</font></span></p></div>