Thema: Freiburg Workshop on Spatial Mental Models, November 8-9, 1996 Sehr geehrtes Mitglied der Gesellschaft fuer Kognitionswissenschaft, der neue E-Mail-Verteiler wird gleich fuer die Ankuendigung eines bevorstehenden kognitionswissenschaftlichen Workshops eingesetzt, das von mehreren Mitgliedern der GK organisiert wird. Besten Gruss Anthony Jameson P.S. Alle Mitteilungen, die ueber den Verteiler verschickt werden, werden fuer laengere Zeit ueber die WWW-Seite der GK (http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/GKognitionswissenschaft/) zur Verfuegung stehen. Wer auf diese Seite zugreifen kann, braucht die meisten Mitteilungen also nicht selber zu speichern. ===================================================================== Freiburg Workshop on SPATIAL MENTAL MODELS Center for Cognitive Science, University of Freiburg, Germany November 8-9, 1996 SHORT DESCRIPTION For the commencement of the "Memospace" research project at the Freiburg Center for Cognitive Science, we are organizing a workshop on "Spatial Mental Models". The project is part of the Spatial Cognition Program funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and aims at the investigation of principles and mechanisms in spatial reasoning within the framework of the theory of mental models. The distinction of three phases in the reasoning process - model construction, model inspection, and model variation (i.e. the construction of alternative models) - has proven a valuable conceptual framework for integrating evidence. Regarding processes within these phases, however, theoretical assumptions are more or less detailed, and empirical evidence varies from rather strong (i.e., premise integration within the phase of model construction) to nearly non-existent (i.e. concerning the phase of model variation). The workshop is bringing together European researchers working in the field of spatial mental models and spatial reasoning, who have either made contributions to a more formal treatment of the mental model approach, or made empirical investigations with respect to spatial mental models, or come up with cognitive models, or, ideally, tried to combine all of the former activities. Main issues addressed by the workshop include: * empirical evidence for the processes of model construction, model inspection, and model variation in spatial relational inference * the issue of pictorial vs. spatial representation format * methodological problems in investigating spatial mental models (e.g. spatial priming as method for investigating model inspection) * current research on spatial mental models and relations to working memory, imagery, and text comprehension * alternative theoretical accounts and competing computational models of spatial reasoning WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION The workshop program will consist of invited talks only. The workshop will take place at the University of Freiburg and start in the afternoon of November 8, and last until the evening of November 9, 1996. Time slots are 45 min (30 min presentation, 15 min discussion). Talks report either on current research or give surveys on the above mentioned issues. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Reinhold Rauh, Markus Knauff, Christoph Schlieder, Gerhard Strube Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Institut fuer Informatik und Gesellschaft Abteilung Kognitionswissenschaft Friedrichstr. 50 79098 Freiburg i. Br. CONTACT If you want to attend, please e-mail/phone/fax to * reinhold@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de * Phone: +49 761 203 4943 * Fax: +49 761 203 4938 for participation. LOCATION: Wilhelmstr. 25, Room 00 006 PROGRAMME Friday, 8 November 1996 14:15 - 14:30 Welcome and Introduction to the Freiburg Workshop on Spatial Mental Models Gerhard Strube 14:30 - 15:15 Mental Models and Spatial Thinking Ruth Byrne 15:15 - 16:00 Relational Inference Walter Schaeken 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 17:15 Pictorial representations with annotations Christopher Habel 17:15 - 18:00 Discussion on model construction Saturday, 9 November 1996 9:00 - 9:45 Spatial descriptions as navigational aids Michel Denis 9:45 - 10:30 Representation and activation of knowledge of routes Karl Friedrich Wender 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 - 11:45 Spatial and Propositional Reasoning: Mental Models and Working Memory Karl Christoph Klauer 11:45 - 12:30 Spatial Mental Models in Linear Reasoning Andre Vandierendonck & Gino De Vooght 12:30 - 13:15 Discussion on model inspection 13:15 - 15:00 Lunch 15:00 - 15:45 What is the proper subject of the psychology of reasoning? Keith Stenning 15:45 - 16:30 Reasoning with qualitative spatial relations Christoph Schlieder, Reinhold Rauh, Markus Knauff & Gerhard Strube 16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break 17:00 - 17:45 Fuzzy pictures: individual differences in syllogistic and heterogeneous reasoning Jon Oberlander 17:45 - 18:30 Discussion on model variation ===================================================================== Fuer weitere Informationen verweisen wir auf die Workshop Web-Seiten unter http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/events/SMM.html Die Teilnahme am Workshop ist fuer jede/jeden prinzipiell offen, und jede/jeder Interessierte ist herzlich dazu eingeladen. Aus organisatorischen Gruenden bitten wir aber um persoenliche Anmeldung (Kontaktaufnahme s.o.). Mit freundlichen Gruessen, auch im Namen von Markus Knauff, Christoph Schlieder und Gerhard Strube Reinhold Rauh ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Reinhold Rauh Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Institut fuer Informatik und Gesellschaft Abteilung Kognitionswissenschaft Friedrichstr. 50 79098 Freiburg i. Br. Tel.: 0761-203-4943 Fax: 0761-203-4938 e-mail: reinhold@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de URL: http://www.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/members/reinhold