Call for Proposals
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 seehttp://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@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 (as 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
- POSTAL MAIL ONE HARD-COPY OF COVER PAGE: 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.
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Name, affiliation, full mailing address, email
address, telephone number, and fax number of all authors.
- 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.
- TITLE: The title of the presentation.
- 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 a 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.
- KEYWORDS: A list of FIVE keywords (to be used for indexing as
well as assignment of reviewers)
- MARR PRIZE ELIGIBILITY: Indicate whether the proposal should be
considered for a David Marr Memorial Prize. Papers with a student
first author are eligible.
- 150-WORD SUMMARY
- EMAIL THE INFORMATION PROVIDED FOR THE COVER PAGE,
in the body of an email message, to cs98prog@macc.wisc.edu.
Use the presenter's last name as the subject heading of the email.
- POSTAL MAIL FIVE HARD-COPIES OF THE CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION :
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 FOR MAKING A CAMERA-READY PROCEEDINGS CONTRIBUTION WILL BE RETURNED WITHOUT REVIEW.
For information about conference registration and housing, contact cs98reg@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.