Symposium 1: Spatial Cognition - the Active Observer in Real and Simulated Spaces
(Jenny Campos and Betty Mohler, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)

Friday 27th July 2007
Symposium to be conducted in English
15:00 Introduction
Betty Mohler & Jenny Campos (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
15:10 Seeing Big Things in Real, Virtual, and Desktop Environments
Dennis Proffitt (University of Virginia)
15:40 Embedded and Embodied Cognition in Real-World Environments
Mark May (Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg)
16:10 Coffee break
16:40 Investigating Multi-Sensory Integration in the Estimation of Distance Traveled
Jenny L. Campos (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
17:10 Path Integration in Real and Virtual Environments: Mechanisms and Strategies
Jan Wiener (Collège de France, Paris)
17:40 It’s What You Feel That’s Important, Not What You See.
Roy Ruddle (University of Leeds, UK)