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Spatial Cognition and Computation
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editors:
Stephen C. Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh
Anthony Cohn, University of Leeds
Advisory Editors:
Reg Golledge, University of California at Santa Barbara
Ben Kuipers, The University of Texas at Austin
Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona
Barbara Tversky, Stanford University
Editorial Board:
Gary Allen, University of South Carolina; Michel Denis, LIMSI-CNRS; Max Egenhofer, University of Maine; Andrew Frank,
Technical University of Vienna; Christian Freksa, University of Bremen; C.R. Gallistel, UCLA; Tommy Gärling, Göteborg
University; Janice Glasgow, Queen's University; Christopher Gold, Laval University; Christopher Habel, University of
Hamburg; Ray Jackendoff, Brandeis University; Philip Johnson-Laird, Princeton University; Roberta Klatzky, Carnegie
Mellon University; Werner Kuhn, University of Muenster, Barbara Landau, Johns Hopkins University; Stephen Levinson,
MPI Nijmegen; Gerard Ligozat, LIMSI-CNRS; Jack Loomis, University of California at Santa Barbara; David Mark,
University of Buffalo; Timothy P. McNamara, Vanderbilt University; Daniel R. Montello, University of California at Santa
Barbara; Amitabha Mukerjee, Indian Institute of Technology; John O'Keefe, University College London; Herb Pick,
University of Minnesota; Juval Portugali, Tel Aviv University; Zenon Pylyshyn, Rutgers University; Hanan Samet, University
of Maryland; Jeanne Sholl, Boston College; Elizabeth S. Spelke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Stea, Southwest
Texas State University; David Uttal, Northwestern University
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.
Audience
Psychologists, computer scientists, geographers, neuroscientists, linguists and professionals interested in the spatial
sciences.
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
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 previously published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
For further information, please visit
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~scc