Thursday 14, 2006 - Rome
Room 3
09.00 10.00 Session Multisensory integration of spatial information
Chair: Emiliano Macaluso
| 09.00 09.20 | Perceptual exploration and intersensory merging in a visual-haptic Necker cube |
| Nicola Bruno | |
| Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy |
| 09.20 09.40 | Gaze of Olympic speedkaters skating at full speed on a regulation oval: Perception-action coupling in a dynamic performance environment |
| Joan N. Vickers | |
| Neuro-Motor Psychology Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary,Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 09.40 10.00 | Developmental components of large-scale search: evidence from children and individuals with partial genetic deletions |
| Alastair D. Smith, Ian D. Gilchrist, Bruce M. Hood, Annette Karmiloff-Smith | |
| University of Bristol, Bristol, UK |
| 10.00 10.20 | Processing of Binaural Sound Coherence in the Human Brain |
| Ulrike Zimmer, Emiliano Macaluso | |
| NeuroImaging Laboratory, IRCCS-Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy |
10.20 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 12.00 Session Memory and spatial representation
Chair: Barbara Tversky
| 11.00 11.20 | Does spatial interference affect spatial text processing in individuals with high mental rotation ability? |
| Chiara Meneghetti, Rossana De Beni, Francesca Pazzaglia, Valérie Gyselinck | |
| Department of General Psychology,University of Padua, Padua, Italy |
| 11.20 11.40 | The dynamic of variability as a way for studying the consolidation process |
| B. Berberian, M. D. Giraudo | |
| Facultè des Sciences du Sport, Universitè de la Mèditerranèe, Marseille, France |
| 11.40 12.00 | The effect of familiarity on egocentred and allocentred spatial representations of the environment |
| Gennaro Ruggiero , Tina Iachini | |
| Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy |
Room 4
09.00 10.00 Session Verbal labellings and descriptions of spatial relations
Chair: Valerie Gyselinck
| 09.00 09.20 | Describing Locations in English and Japanese after Real-World Navigation |
| Steven Tripp | |
| Center for Language Research,University of Aizu, Aizu, Japan |
| 09.20 09.40 | Forming a stable spatial representation |
| Banchiamlack Dessalegn, Barbara Landau | |
| Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA |
| 09.40 10.00 | The effects of sensorimotor cues on spatial reasoning performance |
| Marios N. Avraamides | |
| University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus |
10.20 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 12.00 Session Mapping and scaling spatial representations
Chair: Antonino Raffone
| 11.00 11.20 | A Mindset for User-Centered Spatial Applications |
| Matthew Hockenberry, Rob Gens, Ted Selker | |
| MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA |
| 11.20 11.40 | Image Representation, Scaling and Cognitive Model of Object Perception |
| Sandeep Kumar Ganji, Indu Potula, Venkata Naga Pradeep Ambati, Bujang Rao, Sandhya Kumari Ganji, Shwetha Kumari Ganji | |
| Department of Biomedical Engineering, University College of Engineering (autonomous), Osmania University, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| 11.40 12.00 | Schematic maps in MobileGIS environments: An automated simulated annealing based case study |
| Anand Suchith, J. Mark Ware, Sarah Sharples, Mike Jackson, Jim Nixon | |
| Center for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK |
Aula Magna
12.20 13.20 Keynote
| Synaptic plasticity in the basal ganglia as a cellular model for spatial cognition and neurological disorders | |
| Paolo Calabresi | |
| Department of Neurology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy |
13.20 14.40 Lunch & Poster Session (all posters)
Room 3
14.20 15.40 Symposium Recent trends in the research on Visuo-Spatial Working Memory
Convenor: Clelia Rossi-Arnaud
| 14.20 14.40 | Empirical indices of spatial and executive processes in visuo-spatial working memory |
| J. M. Thompson, C. J. Hamilton, J M Gray, J. G. Quinn, P. Mackin, I. N. Ferrier, A. H. Young | |
| University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK |
| 14.40 15.00 | Rehearsal processes in visuo-spatial working memory |
| David G. Pearson | |
| School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK |
| 15.00 15.20 | What kind of space is remembered in spatial span? |
| Steve Avons | |
| Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Essex, UK |
| 15.20 15.40 | Aspects of complexity in visual-spatial working memory – indication for the application of strategies? |
| Christof Zoelch, Ruth Schumann-Hengsteler | |
| Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Germany |
15.40 16.00 Out of Symposium Recent trends in the research on Visuo-Spatial Working Memory
| 15.40 16.00 | Tactile maps in architecture: universal design and participation in the design process |
| Núbia Bernardi, Doris C. C. K. Kowaltowski | |
| Department of Architecture and Building, School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urban Design, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil |
16.00 16.40 Coffee Break
16.40 18.00 Symposium Action in space: Learning and relearning
Convenors: Barbara Tversky and Geoffrey Edwards
| 16.40 17.00 | Action Learning: Hierarchical Organization and Perspective. |
| Barbara Tversky, S. Lozano, B. Hard | |
| Columbia Teachers College, New York, NY, USA |
| 17.00 17.20 | Gaze and postural stability of elite ballet dancers, ACL-deficient and normal controls during the quiet stance and lunge |
| Joan N. Vickers, J. L. Ronsky, Barbara Loitz-Ramage, D. Panchuk, B. Morton, M. Gotch, R. Ferber, I. Robu | |
| Neuro-Motor Psychology Laboratory, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada |
| 17.20 17.40 | Assistive Navigational Devices that Incorporate Principles of Spatial Cognition and Imagery. |
| Geoffrey Edwards, Alison F. Eardley, F. Malouin, Marlène Viger, Reda Yaagoubi, David Lambiel | |
| Université Laval, Quebec,Canada |
| 17.40 18.00 | Dysfunctions of Spatial Cognition: The Case of Schizophrenic Patients. |
| Marie-Paule Daniel | |
| LIMSI-CNRS, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France |
Room 4
14.20 16.00 Session Navigation in virtual environments
Chair: Iain Gilchrist
| 14.20 14.40 | Walking participants through a virtual model: how we got there and its implications |
| Carlos Galan-Diaz, Anna Conniff, Tony Craig, Richard Laing, Stephen Scott | |
| The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK |
| 14.40 15.00 | Spatial mental models derived from the integration of information from different perspectives. |
| Francesca Pazzaglia, Holly A. Taylor, Diego Varotto | |
| Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy |
| 15.00 15.20 | Spatial strategies in real and virtual environments |
| Tamas Makany, Itiel E. Dror, Edward Redhead | |
| School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK |
| 15.20 15.40 | Two cues are not better than one' the integration of geometric and featural information in the reoriental paradigm. |
| Luciana Picucci, Andrea Bosco | |
| University of Bari, Bari, Italy |
| 15.40 16.00 | Construction of a spatial mental model from a verbal description or from navigation in a virtual environment. |
| Valérie Gyselinck, Luciana Picucci, Pascale Piolino | |
| C.N.R.S., University R. Descartes, Paris, France |
16.00 16.40 Coffee Break
16.40 18.20 Session Artificial models of spatial knowledge
Chair: Fiora Pirri
| 16.40 17.00 | A computational model simulating human performance in the Traveling Salesperson Task |
| Simone Cutini, Demis Basso, Andrea Di Ferdinando, Marco Zorzi, Patrizia S. Bisiacchi | |
| Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy |
| 17.00 17.20 | The representation of objects and location in conceptual networks |
| P. H. de Vries | |
| Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| 17.20 17.40 | Hybrid architecture for the sensorimotor representation of spatial configurations |
| Kerstin Schill, Christoph Zetzsche, Johannes Wolter | |
| Cognitive Neuroinformatics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany |
| 17.40 18.00 | A biologically plausible robot attention model, based on space and time. |
| Anna Belardinelli, Fiora Pirri | |
| Department of Informatics and Sitems, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy |
| 18.00 18.20 | Cognitive stances in urban mobility: a simulation experiment |
| Sylvie Occelli, Luca Staricco | |
| IRES- Istituto di Ricerche Economico Sociali del Piemonte, Turin, Italy |