EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF COGNITIVE SYSTEMS 21th ANNUAL WORKSHOP, 5-7 July 2004 Genoa, Italy (Genova, Italia) The aim of the annual workshops is the exchange of knowledge, information, and opinions on all aspects of cognition and related topics, with emphasis on exchanges between different disciplines involved. Papers may be either of a general kind, or specific, but with sufficient attention for the general aspects, and understandable for the audience from a wide variety of disciplines. The following disciplines belong explicitly to the scope of the workshop: - psychology (cognitive, developmental), perception, - artificial intelligence (general aspects), - associative memory and neural networks, neuroscience, - linguistics (also computational), disorders of language, - education and instruction, - philosophy, history of concepts. Experimental papers should be placed within a theoretical framework. Papers accepted for the workshop may be published in the journal of the ESSCS, 'Cognitive Systems'. The scientific meetings will take place in the 'University of Genoa, right in the centre of the city. Accomodation will be available in a hotel, also in the centre of the city on walking distance. A block booking has been made in a hotel until 1 May 2004. Please send abstracts of papers (or full papers) as soon as possible. Length of abstracts: between 20 and 40 lines (1-2 kByte), to be sent by E-mail (preferably text file). Registration fee 30 Euro for members of the ASoCS/ESSCS, 40 Euro for others, students 15 Euro. For more information on the ESSCS and previous workshops, see the webpage: http://www.esscs.org/ (to be updated) For all questions on the Workshop, the Society, and the Journal, on form and content of papers for the workshop, and for registration, please mail/write to: ESSCS, Dept. of Psychology (E&A), University of Groningen Grote Kruisstraat 2-1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands. Telephone Netherlands +31-50-3636454 (or 3636472), Fax +31-50-3636304 E-mail: esscs@ppsw.rug.nl http://www.esscs.org/ (to be updated)