<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleague,<br><br>We are pleased to announce the <b><i>8th International Conference on Spatial Cognition</i> (ICSC 2021)</b>. The conference will be devoted to "<b><i>Cognition and Action in a Plurality of Spaces</i></b>" and will take place on <b>September 13-17, 2021</b>. Depending on the course of the pandemic, the conference will be <b>either a hybrid or an online conference</b>. In case of a hybrid conference, it will take place as an on-site conference in Rome and at the same time as a fully digital, interactive conference with access to all scientific sessions.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Topics</b>:<br></div><div>In order to foster interdisciplinary discussion and spread new, innovative research on spatial cognition, space-related contributions from all sub-disciplines of cognitive science (cognitive psychology and neuropsychology, neuroscience, computational approaches, linguistics, philosophy of mind, etc.) will be considered. ICSC 2021 will be devoted (but not limited) to multidisciplinary researches on cognition and action concerning:<br></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>physical, virtual, and hybrid spaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>perceptual, imaginary, and conceptual spaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>unisensory and multisensory spaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>life-space and representations of space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>spatial and non-spatial representations of space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>bodily, peripersonal, and extrapersonal space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>proximal and distal space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>urban, rural, and natural spaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>terrestrial and extra-terrestrial spaces</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>subjective, intersubjective, and collective representations of space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>egocentric and allocentric representations of space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>culture-specific representations of space</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>space in music, art, and architecture</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>space in human-robot cooperation and human-robot interaction</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></span>temporal spaces and time-space relationships</li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Deadlines</b>:<br><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Symposium proposals (General abstracts with authors and titles of single contributions): <b>January 31, 2021</b></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Abstracts of talks, posters, and single contributions to symposia: <b>January 31, 2021</b></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><b>Conference proceedings</b>:<br>The conference proceedings will be published in <i>Cognitive Processing – International Quarterly of Cognitive Science</i> (<a href="http://www.springer.com/10339" target="_blank">www.springer.com/10339</a>).<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Presidential Board</b>:<br></div><div>Tiziana Catarci, Fabrizio Doricchi, Thomas Hünefeldt, Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Antonino Raffone. </div><div><br></div><div>Further information will follow soon. <br><br>Best regards,<br></div>The ICSC 2021 Presidential Board </div><div id="m_-6236729518674982672DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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