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Editorial
Scope
The
journal of Spatial Cognition and Computation is a multidisciplinary
journal based on the assumption that the critical issues pertaining
to spatial cognition and computation lie at the intersection
of a number of disciplines, in particular, cognitive psychology,
computer science, geography, neuropsychology and artificial
intelligence. Recent years have seen a growth in the desire
of these communities to share insights and results. The aim
of the journal is both to concentrate the presentation of
research into spatial cognition and computation, and to explicitly
encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue.
Specific
topics within the scope of the journal include:
- cognitive
and computational models of spatial cognition;
- navigation,
environmental learning and cognitive mapping;
- cognitive
development and representation of large scale space;
- neuropsychology
and spatial cognition;
- common
sense and qualitative models of space;
- robot
navigation and wayfinding;
- models
and applications of spatial and diagrammatic reasoning;
- spatial
cognition and visual languages;
- cognitive
theories of imagery and imaginal reasoning;
- integration
of vision and natural language processing;
- representation
and processing of spatial expressions;
- cross-linguistic
issues in spatial language;
- sign
language and spatial cognition;
- gestural
analysis and multimodal interfaces;
- visualization
and spatial cognition;
- navigation
and orientation in virtual environments and hypermedia.
Instructions to Contributors The journal encourages the submission
of articles on any topic on spatial cognition and spatial
computation. Due to the range of academic disciplines, problems
to be addressed by the research should be of a general interest
and authors are encouraged to present their ideas in a manner
that is accessible to the entire journal readership. Research
articles, empirical studies, integrative reviews of the literature
and shorter opinion pieces will be considered for publication.
Proposals for single-topic issues will also be considered.
Submission.
Any readable manuscript format is acceptable for initial submission
and reviewing, although PDF is the preferred format, as manuscripts
will be sent to reviewers in electronic form. Manuscripts
should conform to the guidelines presented in the Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.).
See the SCC Web site at http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~scc
for style guidelines and a manuscript template.
We
will follow the APA policy that authors not submit a manuscript
to more than one source at the same time. Authors should state
in a cover letter that the manuscript is not under consideration
for publication elsewhere; similarly, we will not accept a
manuscript that has appeared (or that will appear) in any
other source in whole or substantial part.
Manuscripts
should be sent in electronic form to the journal editors at
scc@mail.sis.pitt.edu.
The mailing address for the journal is
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Spatial
Cognition and Computation
School of Information Sciences,
7th Floor University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh,
PA 15260, USA
Phone: +1 412-624-9434
Fax: +1 412-624-2788 |
Journal
Subscriptions are available from Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc. See http://www.erlbaum.com/Journals/journals.htm
for details.
The
journal was published previously by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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