Studying Spatial Cognition: A report on the DFG workshop on "The Representation of Motion"

this article, we want to give an impression of this collaborative enterprise that combines scientific work in individual projects with communication and cooperation among the projects and with additional projects not funded in this program. This example is set by describing a workshop on "The Representation of Motion", held in October 1998 in Munich, organized by C. Eschenbach and K. Schill. The workshop is part of a series of topic-centered workshops, organized by members of the priority program and meant to encourage the interaction within the program and the integration of further projects on kindred topics. This series complements workshops of the whole program, on the one hand, and bilateral workshops of projects collaborating on concrete tasks, on the other hand