CogSci98; Please post!

Morton Ann Gernsbacher MAGernsb at FACSTAFF.WISC.EDU
Mon Nov 24 01:36:36 UTC 1997


CogSci98 -- Call for Submissions
Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
August 1 - 4, 1998; University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html

We are pleased to announce CogSci98, the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, August 1-4,
1998. Because the field of cognitive science exists to promote
cross-disciplinary integration of concepts, methods, epistemologies, and
data, and the empirical and theoretical base of cognitive science can shed
light on the nature of such an interdisciplinary enterprise, CogSci98 will
focus on Interdisciplinarity.

This focus will be manifested in the following four ways: First, one
plenary session will be dedicated to the topic of interdisciplinarity.
Second, several invited tutorial symposia designed to provide breadth of
interest will be offered. Third, presentations from the Cognitive Science
Society membership that address interdisciplinarity as an object of
empirical and theoretical research are hereby encouraged for one strand of
the conference program. And fourth, all submissions for spoken
presentations (i.e., symposia and spoken papers) will be evaluated for
their ability to transcend their disciplinary boundaries and truly address
the breadth of the community of cognitive scientists, in addition to being
evaluated for their technical and theoretical merit (see review criteria
below); thus, more general papers and symposia will have a higher priority
for scheduling on the spoken program, and more specialized topics will be
assigned to poster sessions. This call solicits submissions for four forms
of presentation:

STANDARD SPOKEN PAPERS: 20-minute spoken presentations, which if accepted
will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings;

STANDARD POSTERS: standard poster presentations, which if accepted will be
published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings;

ABSTRACT POSTERS: poster presentations, which are guaranteed to be
published in the Proceedings as one-page abstracts but can be submitted
only by members of the Cognitive Science Society. The deadline for
submitting proposals for abstract posters is one month later than that for
standard paper and poster presentations, so that persons who would like to
become members of the Society may do so prior to submitting their abstract
posters. Please see http://www.umich.edu/~cogsci for information about
membership in the Cognitive Science Society,  or contact the Executive
Officer of the Cognitive Science Society, Inc., Colleen Seifert of the
University of Michigan at (313) 764-4253; fax (313) 763-7480 (Attn:  Prof.
Seifert); email cogsci at umich.edu.

SYMPOSIA: 90-minute spoken presentations, including three or more
well-integrated talks on a common topic and possibly a discussant, which if
accepted will be published as one-page abstracts in the Proceedings.

Submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, and symposia will
be reviewed according to the following criteria: Technical/Theoretical
Merit; Relevance to a Broad Audience of Cognitive Science Researchers;
Clarity of Presentation; Significance; and Originality.

ALL submissions for standard spoken papers, standard posters, abstract
posters, and symposia require three pieces of information to be submitted,
two by postal mail and one by electronic mail. The three components are (1)
one hard-copy of a COVER PAGE (described below); (2) one electronic mail
message containing the information presented on the COVER PAGE; and (3)
five hard-copies of CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION (described at
http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html).

(1) POSTAL MAIL ONE HARD-COPY OF COVER PAGE PROVIDING THE SEVEN ITEMS (a -
g) LISTED BELOW: Provide the following information on a cover page, and
mail the hard-copy of the cover page with the five copies of the
camera-ready Proceedings contribution.

(a) Author Information: Name, affiliation, full mailing address, email
address, telephone number, and fax number of all authors.

(b) Presenter/Organizer's Name: Name of person who will be making the
presentation, or in the case of a symposium, the name of the organizer.

(c) Title: The title of the presentation.

(d) Presentation Format Preference: Indicate whether the first preference
is presentation as a standard spoken paper, standard poster, abstract
poster, or symposium. If first preference is standard spoken paper, you
must also indicate whether you are willing to make a standard poster
presentation or an abstract poster presentation if your submission cannot
be accepted for a standard spoken paper.

(e) Keywords: A list of FIVE keywords (to be used for indexing as well as
assignment of reviewers)

(f) Marr Prize Eligibility: Indicate whether the proposal should be
considered for a David Marr Memorial Prize. Papers with a student
first-author are eligible.

(g) 150-word Summary

(2) EMAIL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE COVER PAGE (items (a) through
(g) described above), in the body of an email message, to
CS98PROG at MACC.WISC.EDU. Use the presenter's last name as the subject
heading of the email.

(3) POSTAL MAIL FIVE HARD-COPIES OF THE CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS
CONTRIBUTION: Strictly follow the instructions provided at
http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html, which are also being
postal mailed to society members. For standard spoken papers and standard
posters, the entire contribution (including figures, references,
everything) can be no longer than six pages. For abstract posters and
symposia, the entire contribution can be no longer than one page.

POSTAL MAIL ADDRESS:    CogSci98
                        c/o Dr. Morton Ann Gernsbacher
                        1202 W. Johnson Street
                        University of Wisconsin-Madison
                        Madison, WI 53706-1611
                        USA

Deadline for RECEIPT of all submission materials is February 6, 1998 (for
standard paper, standard poster, and symposium submissions) and March 6,
1998 (for abstract posters). Authors whose submissions are accepted on the
program and will appear in the Proceedings will be notified in time to
return final versions of their camera-ready Proceedings contributions by
late April.

PROPOSALS THAT DO NOT CONTAIN ALL OF THE ABOVE INFORMATION OR DO NOT FIT
ALL THE SPECIFICATIONS DESCRIBED IN THE INSTRUCTIONS (available at
http://psych.wisc.edu/CogSci98/conf.html) WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW.

For information about conference registration and housing, contact
CS98REG at MACC.WISC.EDU after December 1, 1997. Please DO NOT direct queries
about conference registration, housing, parking on campus, or lodging to
any other email address.


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Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D.
Sir Frederic C. Bartlett Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1202 W. Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706-1611
(608) 262-6989  [fax (608) 262-4029]
MAGernsb at facstaff.wisc.edu
http://psych.wisc.edu/lang/index.html



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