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Towards an Ontology for Mental Functioning

Towards an Ontology for Mental Functioning. Janna Hastings Gwen Frishkoff Barry Smith. Purpose of the workshop. What are the uses for ontology in studying the functioning of the mind? What ontologies already exist, and how are they being used?

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Towards an Ontology for Mental Functioning

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  1. Towards an Ontology for Mental Functioning Janna Hastings Gwen Frishkoff Barry Smith

  2. Purpose of the workshop • What are the uses for ontology in studying the functioning of the mind? • What ontologies already exist, and how are they being used? • What is the best strategy for putting our efforts together to create a harmonized and interoperable ontology for mental functioning? • What are the missing pieces?

  3. Schedule • First session • Opening remarks (this) • Mental Functioning and Semantic Search in the Neuroscience Information Framework (Maryann Martone) • Representing mental functioning – Ontologies for mental health and disease (Janna Hastings)

  4. Schedule (cont’d) • Second session: Ontology and Neuroscience • Mental Functioning IS Neural Functioning: Towards a Unified Ontology of Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Gwen Frishkoff) • What is the relationship between cognitive experiments and cognitive processes? (Jessica Turner) • Group discussion: relating mind and brain (Moderator: Barry Smith)

  5. Schedule (Cont’d) • Third session: Ontology and Biological Investigations • Mental Functioning in the Gene Ontology and Annotations (Jane Lomax) • Mental Functioning and the Ontology of Language (Barry Smith) • Group discussion: Integrating MF research across disciplines using ontologies (Moderator: JH)

  6. Schedule (cont’d) • Fourth session: Applications in Psychology, Neuroscience and Medicine • Annotating affective neuroscience data with the Emotion Ontology (Janna Hastings) • Ontologies for the Study of Neurological Disease (Mark Jensen) • Group discussion: Applications, Canonical and non-canonical functioning: representing disease and dysfunction (Moderator: Gwen Frishkoff)

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