Tentative Program
- WELCOME
- KEYNOTE TALK: Linda Smith (Indiana University, USA)
- Piaget was right: Thinking and learning close to the sensory surface.
- John Lipinski and Yulia Sandamirskaya (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
- Then and there in here and now.
- Matthias Weisgerber (Konstanz University, Germany) and Mila Vulchanova (NTNU, Norway)
- Concept and context in linguistic motion encoding: relevant bits of information, and more formal insights.
- Carsten Keßler (University of Munster, Germany) and Martin Raubal (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
- Towards a comprehensive understanding of context in conceptual spaces.
- Ronan O’Ceallaigh and Kenny Coventry (Northumbria University, UK)
- Spatial language as a dynamic system.
- Ivan Vankov, Georgi Petkov and Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria)
- The interplay between schematic functional knowledge and geometry in a model of spatial relations.
- Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz and John Bateman (University of Bremen)
- Similarity-connections between natural language and spatial situations.
- Thora Tenbrink (University of Bremen, Germany), Christoph Hölscher and Jan Wiener (University of Freiburg)
- Route instructions at choice points.
- Liliana Martinez, Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova and Rik Eshuis (NTNU, Norway).
- Statis versus dynamics as context in a free naming task:1-point or 2-point perspective?
- Laura Carlson (Notre Dame University, USA)
- How prior experience constrains current spatial descriptions.
- DISCUSSION