Cognitive Atlas Blog
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From RPoldrack about three weeks ago. (0 comments)
We have created a new blog site - please visit us at http://blog.cognitiveatlas.org
From RPoldrack about five months ago. (0 comments)
Work on the Atlas is progressing well - thanks to those of you who have been contributing! We are making a big push now to add definitions for as many terms as possible; it seems that people find it much easier to edit an existing definition than to create one from scratch. If you are interested in helping to populate the definitions, one good way to get started is the "Populate Term Definitions" on the front page. This will provide you with information from Wikipedia, Google, and NeuroLex about the term and ask you for a definition. Short and simple definitions are perfectly fine, especially if it's a term that is outside of your expertise. The experts in that domain can always sort it out later!
From RPoldrack about five months ago. (0 comments)
Thanks to everyone who has signed up and started contributing to the Cognitive Atlas! We are now up to more than 40 users and growing every day.
As people start contributing content, there are a couple of issues to be aware of.
First, please be sure to keep a strict distinction between concepts and tasks. The definition of concepts should not include anything about how they are measured, and the definition of tasks should not include anything about what mental functions they are meant to measure. Rather, this kind of knowledge should be specified in assertions. See the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task entry for an example of this.
Second, when annotating tasks, it is important to specify any interesting feature of the task as a condition or contrast over conditions, rather than as an indicator. It is tempting to specify things as indicators (e.g., "total number of categories achieved" on the WCST) but instead we want to code this as a contrast over conditions. The reason for this is that assertions that relate concepts to tasks require that the concept be related to a specific contrast, not to an indicator. Thus, if these measures are specified as indicators, it will not be possible to relate them to concepts. Indicators should specify the generic dimensions that are measured across all condition, such as "reaction time".
We will look forward to your continued contributions!
From RPoldrack about seven months ago. (0 comments)
Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Atlas site. We have opened it up to the community, although many of the features are still under development. This site relies upon community involvement, so we hope that you will all get involved in adding content. We also welcome your feedback and suggestions; in the near future we will have a bug reporting mechanism in place, but for now please send your comments directly to me at poldrack@gmail.com.
About the Cognitive Atlas
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 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.