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From:         Stevan Harnad <harnad@Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Re: Citing E-mail

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> Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:57:49 EDT
> From: Chris Stuart <cs10@cornell.edu>
>
> Has a standard been established for citing e-mail in a scholarly work?
>
> Chris Stuart <cs10@cornell.edu>
> Cornell Information Technologies
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I don't know whether there is a uniform standard yet, but this is the
format PSYCOLOQUY has provisionally adopted:

First, an article's file name encodes encodes the following
information:

   JOURNAL-NAME.year.volume-number.item-number.TOPIC.thread-number.AUTHOR:

For example, an item with file name:

   psycoloquy.92.3.46.space.7.velichkovsky

would be formally cited in an article as follows:

   Velichkovsky, B. M. (1992) The Spatial Representation System: A Single
   System of Perceptual-Verbal Access? PSYCOLOQUY 3(46) space.7.

What is unique to the electronic medium is:

(1) Item-numbers replace issue numbers, because each item is an issue in
itself. It makes no sense to bundle together multiple unrelated articles
in one "issue" in the electronic medium.

(1) There is a unique TOPIC name in the filename, making the scanning
and retrieval of the filename list (see below) more useful and
informative than numbers only would have done. This modification is
dictated by the unique electronic searching capacities of the new
medium.

(2) The "thread number" allows readers to electronically search and
retrieve successive items in the thread of discussions on a given
unique TOPIC. Thread numbers may point to earlier stages of discussion
on the same TOPIC in prior years.

(3) The AUTHOR name also allows retrieval by author.

(4) Paragraph numbers replace page numbers, but it has not yet been decided
whether it would be useful to include a paragraph span with the citation.

It should be clear that the volume number is redundant and
uniformative, and is retained only for the purposes of continuity with
prior citation and index practices (it will disappear eventually, just
as bundling multiple unrepated items in a single "issue" has already
been abandoned).

Below is a sample fragment of the PSYCOLOQUY index file. First,
connecting by anonymous ftp would list the following files
(I show only a sample of 10):

psyc.92.3.57.data-archive.4.jennings
psyc.92.3.56.data-archive.3.gelobter
psyc.92.3.55.data-archive.2.graham
psyc.92.3.54.consciousness.29.enright
psyc.92.3.53.consciousness.28.bridgeman
psyc.92.3.52.space.10.montello
psyc.92.3.51.space.9.bryant
psyc.92.3.50.consciousness.27.bridgeman
psyc.92.3.49.space.8.bryant
psyc.92.3.48.consciousness.26.rickert
psyc.92.3.47.consciousness.25.mcgovern

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Now here is the corresponding portion of the 1992 index file
(called psyc.92.index). This file is continuously updated as new items
ar published thoughout a given year:

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INDEX FOR PSYCOLOQUY Volume 3  1992

Note that the filename for retrieving each item appears at the end of the
2nd line of each entry.

Filenames are of the form:

psyc.92.3.x.topicname.y.authorname

This refers to the x'th item in 1992 Volume 3 for the y'th item on that
topic (whose discussion may have begun in a prior year and Volume).
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McGovern, Katharine, & Baars, Bernard J. Consciousness confounded
PSYCOLOQUY, Wednesday, June 24, 1992. psyc.92.3.47.consciousness.25.mcgovern

Rickert, Neil W. Consciousness and simulation
PSYCOLOQUY, Wednesday, June 24, 1992. psyc.92.3.48.consciousness.26.rickert

Bryant, David J. How many spatial systems? (Reply to Velichkovsky)
PSYCOLOQUY, Wednesday, September 9, 1992. psyc.2.3.49.space.8.bryant

Bridgeman, Bruce. Mental life as simulation. (Reply to Rickert)
PSYCOLOQUY, Thurs, September 10, 1992. psyc.92.3.50.consciousness.27.bridgeman

Bryant, David J. Lexical contributions to spatial representation (Reply to
 Brugman)
PSYCOLOQUY, Thurs, September 10, 1992. psyc.92.3.51.space.9.bryant

Montello, Daniel R. Characteristics of environmental spatial cognition.
PSYCOLOQUY, Thurs, September 10, 1992. psyc.92.3.52.space.10.montello

Bridgeman, Bruce. Planning to plan: Iterative brain function (Reply to
 McGovern/Baars)
PSYCOLOQUY, Thurs, September 10, 1992. psyc.92.3.53.consciousness.28.bridgeman

Enright, J.T. Has consciousness become a soluble problem?
PSYCOLOQUY, Thurs, September 10, 1992. psyc.92.3.54.consciousness.29.enright

Graham, Peter Protecting the integrity of electronically archived data.
PSYCOLOQUY, Friday, September 11, 1992. psyc.55.data-archive.2.graham

Gelobter, Michael. Public data-archiving: A fair return on publicly funded
 research.
PSYCOLOQUY, Friday, September 11, 1992. psyc.92.3.55.data-archive.3.gelobter

Jennings, Edward M. Endorsement of ftp internet archiving of data.
PSYCOLOQUY, Friday, September 11, 1992. psyc.92.3.56.data-archive.4.jennings

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Below is the article itself, but with all but the first and last
paragraphs deleted:

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psycoloquy.92.3.46.space.7.velichkovsky             Tuesday  June 23 1992
ISSN 1055-0143                   (7 paragraphs, 11 references, 129 lines)
                Copyright 1992 Boris M. Velichkovsky

                THE SPATIAL REPRESENTATION SYSTEM:
                A SINGLE SYSTEM OF PERCEPTUAL-VERBAL ACCESS?
                Commentary on Bryant on Space

                Boris M. Velichkovsky
                Department for Psychology and Engineering of Knowledge
                Moscow State University
                Moscow 103009, Russia
                BMV@chair.cogsci.msu.su
                UZIFF016@comparex.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de

KEYWORDS: dissociation, levels of cognitive organization, mental
          space, psychophysics, spatial cognition

1.1  Bryant's (1992) target article presents an impressive body of
evidence for the possibility of integrating perceptual and verbal
information about space into a common format, but because there may be
an element of confirmatory bias in his discussion I will try to support
another position in this commentary.

      [text deleted]

1.7  The picture emerging from these considerations is of several
systems situated along the vertical dimension of mental functioning
(Velichkovsky 1990). Bryant's target article does an excellent job of
presenting the evidence on the central portion of the functional
hierarchy, but it unfortunately fails to distinguish human spatial
cognition's important prerequisites and advanced forms. Some of these
systems allow only "perceptual" access, others only "verbal."

REFERENCES

Aaronson, E. & Rosenbloom, S. (1972) Space perception in early infancy.
Science 177: 1161-1163.

Bryant, D.J. (1992) A spatial representation system in human.
PSYCOLOQUY 3 (16) space.1

Fauconnier, G. (1984) Espaces mentaux. Paris: Minuit.

Gibson, J. J. (1979) An ecological approach to visual perception.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Jackendoff, R. & Landau, B. (1991) Spatial language and spatial
cognition. In D.J.Napoli & J.A.Kegl (Eds.) Bridges between psychology
and linguistics: A Swarthmore festschrift for Lila Gleitman. Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associatates.

Leslie, A. (1991, November 1-4) Dissociations in acquiring a "Theory of
mind." Paper presented to the Conference on the Mental Architecture.
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Lewin, K. (1917) Kriegslandschaft. Zeitschrift fuer angewandte
Psychologie 13: 440-447.

Shipley, T. & Rowlings, S.O. (1971) Sensory directions in homogenous
binocular visual space. Perception & Psychophysics 9: 335-337.

Tulving, E. (1992, June 11) Human memory: Structures and processes.
Paper presented to the psychophysiological seminar. Faculty of
Psychology, University of Bielefeld.

Velichkovsky, B.M. (1990) The vertical dimension of mental functioning.
Psychological Research 52: 282-289.

Velichkovsky, B.M., Blinnikova, J.V. & Lapin, E.A. (1986)
Predstavlenije realnogo i voobrazhaemogo prostranstva [Representation
of real and imaginary space]. Voprosy Psykhologii 31: 103-115.


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Editor, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, PSYCOLOQUY

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