<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Final Call for Papers and Deadline Extension</span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><u>Due to several requests to extend the submission deadline, we are extending the deadline for abstracts’ submission: </u></span></p><p style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000">April 25, 2020</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Linkages between Space and Memory: Processes and Representations</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">15th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">August 29, 2020</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Laboratory for Perceptual and Cognitive Systems,<br>Faculty of Computing, University of Latvia</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/upcoming-events/">https://www.lpcs.lu.lv/upcoming-events/</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">  </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">About the Event</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">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></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">▪          Spatial context and memory</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">▪          Episodic memory and spatial learning</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">▪          Developmental trajectory of navigation and episodic memory</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">▪          Neural principles of navigation and episodic memory<br><br><br></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:18px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Keynotes: </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:18px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Aidan Horner</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">York Episodic Memory Lab, University of York, UK</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:18px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Nora Newcombe </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Research in Spatial Cognition (RISC) Lab, Temple University, USA</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px;min-height:18px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"></span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Charan Ranganath</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Dynamic Memory Lab,  University of California at Davis, USA</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Deadline for abstracts’ submission: </font><font color="#ff0000"><b style="">April 25</b>, 2020 </font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">Abstracts of no more than 250 words are to be submitted by </font><b style=""><font color="#ff0000">April </font></b></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:underline"><b style=""><font color="#ff0000">25</font></b></span><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#ff0000">2020 </font></span><span style="color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">at <a href="mailto:lpcs@lu.lv">lpcs@lu.lv</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">(Abstracts should contain a brief description of relevant theory, research</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">design, methods, and results.) Authors will be notified at the end of April/beginning of May.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The Symposium is Co-Affiliated with <a href="http://sc2020.lu.lv/">http://sc2020.lu.lv/</a> that includes several sub-symposia and workshops:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">·      on Medical Data Visualisation (co-hosted by Riga Stradins University);</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">·      on Sensor Technologies and Distributed Systems (co-hosted with EDI institute);</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">·      an Introductory Workshop to Eye Tracking (Tobii Pro): Hands on workshop on Eye Tracking research in screen-based solutions.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">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.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The conference will include the annual Robert Blumberg Distinguished Lecture, founded and supported by Robert Blumberg.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">  </span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:Arial;margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">!!!A note regarding the COVID-19 situation: Although we remain hopeful that the symposium will take place as planned, we are monitoring the COVID-19 situation both locally and from an international point of view. If necessary, we will provide alternative solutions. We will communicate all changes as soon as possible. <u>I</u></span><u>n case of a postponement all accepted papers will still be accepted at a later point.</u></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>