cognitive science conference cogsci interdisciplinary research group linguistics plays major role would like encourage linguists submit papers conference cognitive science society conference call papers proposals pleased announce twentyfirst annual meeting cognitive science society august 1921 1999 conference site vancouver british columbia downtown campus simon fraser university goal organizing conference reflect full spectrum many research areas cognitive science welcome submissions trust multiple research themes emerge naturally especially interested submissions areas represented recent conferences six categories submissions spoken papers 20 minute spoken presentations reviewed published sixpage papers proceedings submission length 2000 words symposia two hour spoken presentations including three wellintegrated talks common topic reviewed published onepage abstracts proceedings submission length 1000 words posters standard poster presentations reviewed published 6 page papers proceedings submission length 2000 words abstract posters poster presentations full members society reviewed published proceedings submission length 500 words society members submit abstracts posters march 6 1999 tutorials sessions devoted technical tutorials may offered possible topics include hidden markov models act model cognitive task analysis fmri information see http www psychology nottingham ac uk staff ritter cogsci99 proposals html workshops sessions devoted education cognitive science may also offered proposals howto sessions undergraduate graduate programs study requested information see http depts vassar edu cogsci workshops html review process submissions spoken papers standard posters symposia reviewed criteria technical theoretical merit relevance broad audience cognitive science researchers clarity presentation significance originality submissions refereed electronically require cameraready paper copies accepted publication information electronic submission formats found conference website http www sfu ca cogsci99 conference chair prof martin hahn email cogsci99 sfu ca postal mail cogsci99 c philosophy dept simon fraser univ vancouver b c v5a 1s6 deadline submissions must received february 6 1999 consideration cognitive science society membership information please see http www umich edu cogsci contact society office c prof colleen seifert univ michigan 525 east university ann arbor mi 481091109 phone 734 4299248 fax 734 7637480 email cogsci umich edu