{"id":978,"date":"2015-09-28T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/?page_id=978"},"modified":"2015-09-30T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T09:36:38","slug":"opening-address","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/home\/opening-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/MariaLauraApples\/slideshelf\" width=\"615px\" height=\"470px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Opening address by Marta Olivetti Belardinelli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Dear Participants,<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">at the beginning of this sixth edition of the \u201cInternational\u00a0Conference on Spatial Cognition\u201d, which is held in Rome every\u00a0three years, I first of all want to welcome and thank in my name\u00a0and in the name of Thomas Hu\u0308nefeldt and Antonino Raffone, my\u00a0colleagues in the Presidential Board, the almost 300 attendees to\u00a0this Conference.\u00a0In particular, we wish to express our thanks to the Authorities who\u00a0have come to inaugurate the Conference, i.e. the Dean of the\u00a0Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Professor Cristiano Violani,\u00a0the Director of the Department of Psychology, Professor Gabriella\u00a0Antonucci, the Director of ECONA, Professor Tiziana Catarci,\u00a0and the Rector of Sapienza University who will greet us at the\u00a0inaugural buffet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This year the conference is devoted to Space and Situated\u00a0Cognition, and is aimed at exploring the links between the\u00a0multifaceted topic of the cognitive processing of space and an\u00a0emergent paradigm of Cognitive Science.\u00a0The Situated Cognition paradigm is highly representative of the\u00a0multidisciplinary nature of Cognitive Science.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since all knowledge is bound to social, cultural and physical\u00a0contexts, Situated Cognition posits that knowing is situated in\u00a0activity and inseparable from it. Therefore, learning is seen in\u00a0terms of the individual&#8217;s increasingly effective performance across\u00a0situations rather than in terms of an accumulation of knowledge,\u00a0since what is known is co-determined by the agent and the\u00a0context.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Situated Cognition the mutual relationships of context and\u00a0content, of the individual and the environment, and of knowing\u00a0and doing, are understood through the belief that learning is\u00a0situated and continuously advances through activity in a\u00a0community of practice (Moss, 2000).\u00a0Therefore, as described in my book The Construction of Reality\u00a0(1974), this position allows to overcome the opposition between\u00a0the nativistic and the empiricist positions, which across centuries\u00a0gave rise to three levels of problems and related research:\u00a0\u201cSubject \/ Object\u201d or mind\/body problem, tied to the research\u00a0about Perception;\u00a0\u201cNurture \/ Culture\u201d or philogenesis versus ontogenesis in the\u00a0research about Learning;\u00a0\u201cPerson \/ Technology\u201d and today individual versus world wide\u00a0web in the new research about Social Evolutionism.\u00a0In this perspective, there is a reciprocal triadic causation exerted\u00a0on Collaborative Agency by:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">1. Personal factors (cognitive and affective)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">2. Behavioural interactions between organisms and (real\u00a0and virtual) environments<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">3. Social and technological environments<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The plenty of research perspectives that the paradigm of Situated\u00a0Cognition opens up is one of the reasons for the high adhesion to\u00a0this Conference on the processing of space, which features:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00b7 <\/span>7 Keynote Lectures<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00b7 <\/span>27 Symposia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00b7 <\/span>13 Oral Sessions<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00b7 <\/span>6 Poster Sessions<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At this point I would like to thank the 7 keynote lecturers of this\u00a0Conference:\u00a0Yan Bao<span class=\"s1\">; <\/span>William J. Clancey <span class=\"s1\">; <\/span>Shaun Gallagher <span class=\"s1\">; <\/span>Vittorio Gallese<span class=\"s1\">;\u00a0<\/span>Sergei Gepshtein ; Kevin O\u2019Regan; and in particular Barbara\u00a0Tversky who, despite the very short notice, kindly accepted to\u00a0replace Susan Goldin-Meadow who could not come for very\u00a0serious family reasons.\u00a0I would also like to thank our Scientific Committee that had a hard\u00a0work reviewing first so many submitted abstracts and then the\u00a0short papers published, together with the Conference Proceedings,\u00a0in a Supplement of\u00a0Cognitive Processing \u2013 International Quarterly of Cognitive\u00a0Science (http:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/10339).\u00a0Finally I would like to thank our Collaborators in the local\u00a0Organizing Committee who are still hard working to ensure a\u00a0smooth course of the Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It is our wish that you enjoy this 6<span class=\"s2\">th <\/span>edition of ICSC in Rome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening address by Marta Olivetti Belardinelli &#8220;Dear Participants, at the beginning of this sixth edition of the \u201cInternational\u00a0Conference on Spatial Cognition\u201d, which is held in Rome every\u00a0three years, I first of all want to welcome and thank in my name\u00a0and in the name of Thomas Hu\u0308nefeldt and Antonino Raffone, my\u00a0colleagues in the Presidential Board, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/home\/opening-address\/\" class=\"more-link\">Leggi tutto<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opening address&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-978","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/978\/revisions\/983"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsc-rome.org\/archive\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}