About the Cognitive Atlas
User Documentation
Implementation References
The Cognitive Atlas is a collaborative knowledge building project that aims to develop a knowledge base (or ontology) that characterizes the state of current thought in cognitive science. The project is led by Russell Poldrack, Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin in collaboration with the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (A. Toga, PI) and UCLA Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics (R. Bilder, PI). It is supported by grant RO1MH082795 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
The Cognitive Atlas aims to capture knowledge from users with expertise in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. There are two basic kinds of knowledge in the knowledge base. Terms provide definitions and properties for individual concepts and tasks. Assertions describe relations between terms in the same way that a sentence describes relations between parts of speech.
Take for example, this assertion: updating is a part of working memory
Here, a meaningful statement is made by providing a relation (italicized) between two terms. The icon to the right of the assertion will take you to the assertion page which may contain bibliographic support and other related information.
A fundamental feature of the knowledge base is the desire and ability to capture not just agreement but also disagreement regarding definitions and assertions. Thus, if you see a definition or assertion that you disagree with, then you can assert and describe your disagreement.
The Cognitive Atlas aims to capture knowledge from users with expertise in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. There are two basic kinds of knowledge in the knowledge base. Terms provide definitions and properties for individual concepts and tasks. Assertions describe relations between terms in the same way that a sentence describes relations between parts of speech.
Take for example, this assertion: updating is a part of working memory
Here, a meaningful statement is made by providing a relation (italicized) between two terms. The icon to the right of the assertion will take you to the assertion page which may contain bibliographic support and other related information.
A fundamental feature of the knowledge base is the desire and ability to capture not just agreement but also disagreement regarding definitions and assertions. Thus, if you see a definition or assertion that you disagree with, then you can assert and describe your disagreement.
User Documentation
Contributor Guide
Introductory Walkthrough Video
Implementation References
Entity Relations in the Cognitive Atlas | RDF Reference Vocabularies