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Towards an Ontology of Cognitive Control
Author(s) -
Lenartowicz Agatha,
Kalar Donald J.,
Congdon Eliza,
Poldrack Russell A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
topics in cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.191
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1756-8765
pISSN - 1756-8757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01100.x
Subject(s) - phenomics , cognition , ontology , cognitive science , computer science , cognitive neuroscience , artificial intelligence , classifier (uml) , field (mathematics) , domain specificity , cognitive map , psychology , cognitive psychology , data science , neuroscience , mathematics , epistemology , biochemistry , chemistry , genomics , philosophy , genome , pure mathematics , gene
The goal of cognitive neuroscience is to map mental functions onto their neural substrates. We argue here that this goal requires a formal approach to the characterization of mental processes, and we present one such approach by using ontologies to describe cognitive processes and their relations. Using a classifier analysis of data from the BrainMap database, we examine the concept of “cognitive control” to determine whether the proposed component processes in this domain are mapped to independent neural systems. These results show that some subcomponents can be uniquely classified, whereas others cannot, suggesting that these different components may vary in their ontological reality. We relate these concepts to the broader emerging field of phenomics, which aims to characterize cognitive phenotypes on a global scale.