<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Spatial Cognition 2024 is now open for submissions.  Please visit <a href="https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-OWAdc3fb2e5-d3eb-fea5-40ba-6bea7c29db7b" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/</a> for instructions on how to submit. </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"> Please forward to others for whom this conference will be of interest. (Apologies for cross posting)</span></div><p style="margin:0px 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Spatial Cognition 2024 will be held at TU Dublin, Ireland, from June 25 to 28, 2024.  Workshops, symposia, posters, abstracts and papers on various aspects of spatial cognition are all welcome. </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Key dates </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><ul style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Paper submission Deadline: January 15, 2024  </span></li><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Symposia submission Deadline: January 15, 2024  </span></li><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2024  </span></li><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Camera Ready Deadline: March 31, 2024  </span></li><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Conference: June 25 – 28, 2024  </span></li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">We are pleased to announce that are keynote speakers are: </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><ul style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm"><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">David Uttal, Professor of psychology and education at Northwestern University  </span></li><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Katie Gilligan-Lee, Ad Astra Fellow at the School of Psychology, University College Dublin  </span></li><li style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Alexander Klippel, </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)">Professor of Geo-Information Science</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">, Wageningen University  </span></li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Spatial Cognition is concerned with the acquisition, development, representation, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial objects in real, virtual or hybrid environments and processed by human or artificial agents. Spatial Cognition includes research from fields such as cognitive and developmental psychology, linguistics, computer science, geography, cartography, philosophy, neuroscience, and education. SC2024 is supported by SellSTEM, a MSCA Innovative Training Network (funded by the EU under Horizon 2020, <a href="http://sellstem.eu">sellstem.eu</a>), whose research theme is spatial ability in STEM learning.  Therefore, submissions are also welcome that explore issues such as the role of spatial ability in STEM learning across all age groups, spatial ability development separate to or integrated with STEM, professional development for teachers to enhance spatial ability development in formal and informal learning environments and curriculum design and policy to promote spatial ability development.  The final program will be the result of a selective review process. The program will include oral and poster presentations of refereed papers, symposia and keynote talks.  Full papers will be published by Springer Link in the LNCS series (<a href="https://www.springer.com/series/558" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-OWAf8cb02f9-a97a-3480-144b-ca1fdc321943" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.springer.com/series/558. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.springer.com/series/558</a>). </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p style="margin:0px 0cm 0.0001pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">For more information please visit the conference website: <a href="https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-OWA5a0c6db0-e38d-447f-aa08-a83b0a1f135f" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://eleceng.tudublin.ie/sc2024/</a> </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3333px">or write to </span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Gavin Duffy (</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">Technological University Dublin) <a href="mailto:gavin.duffy@tudublin.ie">gavin.duffy@tudublin.ie</a></span></p></div>