The Cognitive Atlas: Employing Interaction Design Processes to Facilitate Collaborative Ontology Creation

The Cognitive Atlas is a collaborative knowledge-building project that aims to develop an ontology that characterizes the current conceptual framework among researchers in cognitive science and neuroscience. The project objectives from the beginning focused on usability, simplicity, and utility for end users. Support for Semantic Web technologies was also a priority in order to support interoperability with other neuroscience projects and knowledge bases. Current off-the-shelf semantic web or semantic wiki technologies, however, do not often lend themselves to simple user interaction designs for non-technical researchers and practitioners; the abstract nature and complexity of these systems acts as point of friction for user interaction, inhibiting usability and utility. Instead, we take an alternate interaction design approach driven by user centered design processes rather than a base set of semantic technologies. This paper reviews the initial two rounds of design and development of the Cognitive Atlas system, including interactive design decisions and their implementation as guided by current industry practices for the development of complex interactive systems

The Cognitive Atlas: Toward a Knowledge Foundation for Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience aims to map mental processes onto brain function, which begs the question of what “mental processes” exist and how they relate to the tasks that are used to manipulate and measure them. This topic has been addressed informally in prior work, but we propose that cumulative progress in cognitive neuroscience requires a more systematic approach to representing the mental entities that are being mapped to brain function and the tasks used to manipulate and measure mental processes. We describe a new open collaborative project that aims to provide a knowledge base for cognitive neuroscience, called the Cognitive Atlas (accessible online at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org), and outline how this project has the potential to drive novel discoveries about both mind and brain

The cognitive atlas: toward a knowledge foundation for cognitive neuroscience.

Cognitive neuroscience aims to map mental processes onto brain function, which begs the question of what "mental processes" exist and how they relate to the tasks that are used to manipulate and measure them. This topic has been addressed informally in prior work, but we propose that cumulative progress in cognitive neuroscience requires a more systematic approach to representing the mental entities that are being mapped to brain function and the tasks used to manipulate and measure mental processes. We describe a new open collaborative project that aims to provide a knowledge base for cognitive neuroscience, called the Cognitive Atlas (accessible online at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org), and outline how this project has the potential to drive novel discoveries about both mind and brain

Atlas poznawczy: w stronę fundamentów wiedzy w neurokognitywistyce (przełożył Przemysław Nowakowski)

Neuronauka poznawcza dąży do odwzorowania procesów umysłowych na funkcjach mózgowych, co nasuwa pytanie o to, jakie „procesy umysłowe” istnieją i jak są powiązane z zadaniami wykorzystywanymi do manipulow- ania nimi i ich mierzenia. Temat ten poruszyliśmy nieformalnie we wcześniejszej pracy, ale sądzimy, że kumulatywny rozwój neuronauki poz- nawczej wymaga bardziej systematycznego podejścia do reprezentowania bytów umysłowych, które są odwzorowywane na funkcje mózgu oraz zada- nia wykorzystywane do manipulowania i mierzenia procesów umysłowych. Opisujemy nowy projekt otwartej współpracy, nazwany At- lasem Poznawczym [Cognitive Atlas], który dąży do dostarczenia bazy wiedzy dla neuronauki poznawczej (dostępny online pod adresem: http://www.cognitiveatlas.org). Nakreślamy potencjał tego projektu jako prowadzącego do nowych odkryć dotyczących tak umysłu, jak i mózgu

Atlas poznawczy: W stronę fundamentów wiedzy w neurokognitywistyce

Cognitive neuroscience aims to map mental processes onto brain function, which begs the question of what “mental processes” exist and how they relate to the tasks that are used to manipulate and measure them. This topic has been addressed informally in prior work, but we propose that cumulative progress in cognitive neuroscience requires a more systematic approach to representing the mental entities that are being mapped to brain function and the tasks used to manipulate and measure mental processes. We describe a new open collaborative project that aims to provide a knowledge base for cognitive neuroscience, called the Cognitive Atlas (accessible online at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org), and outline how this project has the potential to drive novel discoveries about both mind and brain