This multidisciplinary journal is 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 to concentrate the presentation of research into spatial cognition and computation, and to explicitly foster an interdisciplinary dialogue. Spatial Cognition and Computation encourages the submission of articles on any topic in the area of spatial cognition and spatial computation. Research articles, empirical studies, integrative reviews of the literature, and shorter opinion pieces will be considered for publication.

Specific topics within the scope of the journal:

• cognitive and computational models of spatial cognition;
• navigation, environmental learning, and cognitive mapping;
• cognitive development and representation of large scale space;
• common sense and qualitative models of space;
• robot navigation and wayfinding;
• models and applications of spatial and diagrammatic reasoning;
• visual languages, sign language, or visualization and spatial cognition;
• cognitive theories of imageries and imaginal reasoning;
• integration of vision and natural language processing;
• representation and processing of spatial expressions and crosslinguistic issues in spatial language;
• gestural analysis and multimodal interfaces; and
• navigation and orientation in virtual environments and hypermedia.

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