2007-03-05
2007-03-05
BIRNLex-CogBehavior
The BIRN Ontology Task Force
1.2
Bill Bug
The current (2006-10-10) members of the BIRN Ontology Task Force are listed here as the primary curators of the main BIRNLex ontology. Others from within BIRN labs and directly collaborating with BIRN labs have also contributed to specific classes and class properties. Effort is made to provide attribution for each class, where appropriate.
Jessica Turner
Carol Bean
The BIRN project lexicon+ontology
The BIRN Project lexicon will provide entities for data and database annotation for the BIRN project, covering anatomy, disease, data collection, project management and experimental design. It is built using the organizational framework provided by the foundational Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). It uses an abstract biomedical layer on top of that - OBO-UBO which has been constructed as a proposal to the OBO Foundry. This is meant to support creating a sharable view of core biomedical objects such as biomaterial_entity, and organismal_entity that all biomedical ontologies are likely to need and want to use with the same intended meaning. The BIRNLex-Main.owl ontology imports the several domain specific ontology modues required to construct a formal ontology for the multiscale investigation of neurological disease. This particular module contains entities related to the behavior and cognitive capabilities and actions of organisms (BB:2007-03-05).
David Kennedy
Jeff Grethe
Maryann Martone
Amarnath Gupta
Christine Fennema-Notestine
uncurated
Discrimination_function
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Discrimination_function
2007-03-06
Pain_stimulus_triggered_activity
Pain_stimulus_triggered_activity
2007-03-06
uncurated
Bill Bug
Jessica Turner
UMLS
uncurated
Happiness
2006-06-01
Happiness
2007-03-11
C0018592
C0018592
Highly pleasant emotion characterized by outward manifestations of gratification; joy
Bill Bug
A behavioral function supporting immediate sensory-motor integration with minimal nervous system processing (BB:2007-03-05).
Skeletomotor_reflex_function
2007-03-06
uncurated
Skeletomotor_reflex_function
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Inductive_reasoning_function
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Inductive_reasoning_function
uncurated
Generative_verbal_activity
Generative_verbal_activity
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
uncurated
C0002957
Anger
Anger
MeSH
C0002957
2006-06-01
A strong emotional feeling of displeasure aroused by being interfered with, injured or threatened (MeSH).
Jessica Turner
uncurated
2007-03-05
UMLS
C0561843
uncurated
Memory that involves the conscious recall or recognition of one’s own life.
Autobiographical_memory
2006-05-15
Jessica Turner
Autobiographical_memory
2007-03-05
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Verbal_function
uncurated
Verbal_function
Abductive_reasoning_function
uncurated
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Abductive_reasoning_function
Bill Bug
2007-03-05
2007-03-05
_birnlexCogBehavior_retired_class
These are classes for whom the represented entities are now described using a different class. A class is deprecated if it's semantic meaning required alteration or its entity is now represented directly in an imported foundational ontology. These original classes maintain their original identifiers and are included to provide support for previous applications using this ontology class prior to its being deprecated.
_birnlexCogBehavior_retired_class
Drawing
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Drawing
Bill Bug
uncurated
Auditory_stimulus_triggered_activity
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Auditory_stimulus_triggered_activity
2007-03-06
uncurated
The cognitive process of encoding, storing and retrieving past experience
Memory
2006-05-15
Jessica Turner
2007-03-05
uncurated
Memory
BF_T0000216
Requested as opposed to free (BB:2007-03-05).
2007-03-05
Requested_recall
2007-03-05
Bill Bug
Requested_recall
uncurated
Abductive reasoning is a type of reasoning in which a hypothesis is chosen to best explain the relevant evidence - also called 'inference to the best explanation'. Abduction starts from a set of accepted facts and infers to their most likely, or best, explanations. The term abduction is also sometimes used to just mean the generation of hypotheses to explain observations or conclusions. Abductive reasoning allows inferring 'a' as an explanation of 'b'. Because of this, abduction allows the precondition 'a' of 'a entails b' to be inferred from the consequence, and, as such, such abduction is formally equivalent to the logical fallacy 'affirming the consequent.' (Wikipedia - BB:2007-03-05).
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Abductive_reasoning_activity
Wikipedia
Abductive_reasoning_activity
uncurated
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Discrimination_activity
uncurated
Discrimination_activity
2007-03-06
uncurated
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Saccadic_eye_movement
Rapid eye movement relative to an initial target
2007-03-06
Saccadic_eye_movement
uncurated
2006-05-15
Memory_recall
2007-03-05
Bill Bug
Recall as opposed to storage (BB:2007-03-05).
Memory_recall
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
uncurated
Interpretive_vision_based_reading
Interpretive_vision_based_reading
2007-03-06
_birnlexCogBehavior_limbo_class
2007-03-05
Bill Bug
2007-03-05
class in limbo since major refactoring of foundational community ontologies (e.g., BFO, OBI, SKOS). (BB:2007-03-05).
_birnlexCogBehavior_limbo_class
Behavioral_process
2007-03-05
Behavioral_process
uncurated
BIRN OTF
2006-05-15
uncurated
Verbal_activity
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Verbal_activity
A behavioral activity employing verbal function to either generate or interpreting meaningful spoken or writen words or symbols. If generating verbal output, a motor system is invoked. If interpreting verbal input, typically a sensory system is invoked, though certain interpretive activity involves movement of the sensory organ - e.g., eye movements during reading (BB:2007-03-05).
uncurated
2007-03-05
2006-06-01
UMLS
Jessica Turner
MeSH
C0003467
Anxiety
Persistent feeling of dread, apprehension, and impending disaster (MeSH).
C0003467
Anxiety
2007-03-06
uncurated
Eye_movement
Bill Bug
Eye_movement
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Smoking
uncurated
Smoking
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Memory_function
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
uncurated
Memory_function
Cognitive_process
BIRN OTF
2007-03-05
uncurated
Cognitive_process
2006-05-15
Reasoning_function
2007-03-06
Reasoning_function
2007-03-06
uncurated
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Behavioral_function
uncurated
Behavioral_function
Bill Bug
Behavioral functions consist of the variety of emergent operations for which the organism's nervous system is the primary enabling organ system and as such behavioral functions can be said to inhere in the nervous system. Behavioral functions may lead to action via a physiological actuation system such as the skeleto-muscular system or give rise to actions only percieved internally by the individual in which the function inheres (BB).
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Inidividual_body_part_movement
Bill Bug
Inidividual_body_part_movement
uncurated
C0233486
Sadness
BIRN OTF
Bill Bug
Sadness
In what way is this related to Happiness? Is there in fact a single underlying Cognitive_entity for which Happiness and Sadness are just either end of the quality gamut describing that entity as experienced by an individual (BB)? Can you experience both Happiness and Sadness simultaneously (BB)?
2007-03-05
2006-06-01
uncurated
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Interpretive_listening
Bill Bug
Interpretive_listening
uncurated
2007-03-06
uncurated
Bill Bug
Verbal_speaking
2007-03-06
Verbal_speaking
Bill Bug
Olfactory_stimulus_triggered_activity
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
uncurated
Olfactory_stimulus_triggered_activity
Bill Bug
Deductive_reasoning_function
2007-03-06
Deductive_reasoning_function
2007-03-06
uncurated
Cognitive_state
2006-06-01
Bill Bug
Moved under bfo:Disposition, as these are states toward which the organisms in which they inhere are disposed (BB:2007-03-05).
Cognitive_state
Maryann Martone
2007-03-05
Moved from base of hiearchy to a subclass of bfo:realizable_entity (BB).
Describes entities related to cognitive processes. At some point, this will have to be merged with the OBR but for now I think it's best kept separate (MM).
uncurated
Sensory_stimulus_triggered_activity
2007-03-06
Sensory_stimulus_triggered_activity
Bill Bug
uncurated
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Visual_stimulus_triggered_activity
uncurated
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Visual_stimulus_triggered_activity
2006-05-15
The process of focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating. (MeSH)
Attention
2007-03-05
uncurated
Attention
MeSH-UMLS
Jessica Turner
C0004268
uncurated
Lateralized_activity
2007-03-06
Laterality may actually be most effectively expressed as a measured quality via PATO (BB:2007-03-05).
A behavioral activity expressing a behavioral function that is differentially supported across the two cerebrain hemispheres in the vertebrate brain (BB:2007-03-05).
Bill Bug
Lateralized_activity
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
uncurated
Bill Bug
Moral_reasoning_activity
Moral_reasoning_activity
2007-03-06
Moral reasoning is individual or collective practical reasoning about what, morally, one ought to do (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosphy).
Inductive_reasoning_activity
uncurated
Wikipedia
inductive reasoning is a type of reasoning in which the premises of an argument are believed to support the conclusion but do not ensure it. It is used to ascribe properties or relations to types based on tokens (i.e., on one or a small number of observations or experiences); or to formulate laws based on limited observations of recurring phenomenal patterns. Induction is used, for example, in USING SPECIFIC PROPOSITIONS such as:'this ice is cold'; 'a billiard ball moves when struck with a cue' TO INFER GENERAL PROPOSITIONS such as:'all ice is cold'; 'all billiard balls struck with a cue move.' In other words, inductive reasoning infers probable antecedents as a result of observing multiple consequents - i.e., inferring some 'b' from multiple instantiations of 'a' when 'b' entails 'a'.. (Wikipedia - BB:2007-03-05).
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Inductive_reasoning_activity
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Verbal_writing
Verbal_writing
2007-03-06
uncurated
uncurated
Interpretive_verbal_activity
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Interpretive_verbal_activity
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Interpretive_braille_reading
Interpretive_braille_reading
2007-03-06
uncurated
uncurated
C0015726
Jessica Turner
C0015726
UMLS
Fear
The affective response to an actual current external danger which subsides with the elimination of the threatening condition. (MeSH)
2007-03-05
Fear
2006-06-01
Unpleasant but normal emotional response to genuine external danger or threats; compare with ANXIETY and CLINICAL ANXIETY. (CSP)
2007-03-06
Behavioral_activity
Bill Bug
Behavioral_activity
2007-03-06
uncurated
Overt activity inhering in the action of instantiating a behavioral function. In other words, the expressed activity resulting from the action of the behavioral process which makes up a given behavioral function (BB: 2007-03-05).
This seems a bit contrived but appears to be an appropriate way to classify the sub-classes of behavioral activity derived from this class. These certainly are dispositions inhering in the entity performing the activity. There are also many behavioral activities where it really is a non-sequetor to call them behavioral functions - e.g., 'smoking' is certainly a behavior, but it really makes little sense to represent a 'smoking function' and underlying 'smoking process.' Describing behavior as an activity to which an entity is disposed makes it possible to represent very complex behaviors for which the corresponding behavioral function(s) and underlying process(es) are not yet characterized. Note also that one can describe the activity without proscribing the associated function and underlying process - e.g., ants and humans can both be said to be disposed toward expressing 'locomotive behavior', and, yet, the associated 'locomotor function' and underlying 'locomotor process' in each organism is very different. Note also that behavior in general is not restricted to organic 'living' entities but can also be expressed by 'non-living' entities such as the old 'bobbing bird' toy or an automatic loom. Specific entities may have specific dispositions for expressing certain sets of behavioral activities (BB:2007-03-05).
uncurated
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Reasoning_activity
Reasoning_activity
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
uncurated
Heat_stimulus_triggered_activity
Bill Bug
Heat_stimulus_triggered_activity
Deductive_reasoning_activity
Bill Bug
Deductive_reasoning_activity
Wikipedia
2007-03-06
Deductive reasoning is a type of reasoning in which the conclusion is necessitated by, or reached from, previously known facts (the premises). If the premises are true, the conclusion must be true. In deductive reasoning, the conclusion is dependent on its premises. That is, a false premise can possibly lead to a false conclusion, and inconclusive premises will also yield an inconclusive conclusion (Wikipedia - BB:2007-03-05).
2007-03-06
uncurated
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
uncurated
chewing
A behavioral activity expressed while ingesting food.
Appetitive_activity
masticating
Appetitive_activity
swallowing
Locomotor_function
uncurated
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Locomotor_function
A behavioral function enabling an entity to alter its location under the power of its own motive force (BB:2007-03-05).
Jessica Turner
C0013987
A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling.
Emotion
2007-03-05
C0013987
uncurated
Emotion
UMLS
2006-06-01
Free_recall_function
Free_recall_function
2006-10-11
2006-06-01
uncurated
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Appetitive_function
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
A behavioral function supporting the process of ingesting food.
uncurated
Appetitive_function
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
uncurated
Gustatory_stimulus_triggered_activity
Gustatory_stimulus_triggered_activity
Jessica Turner
2006-05-15
BF_T0000218
2007-03-05
Working_memory
Memory that involves the conscious encoding, storing and retrieving information encountered recently
Working_memory
uncurated
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
2007-03-06
Item_recognition_activity
Item_recognition_activity
uncurated
2007-03-06
Locomotor_activity
2007-03-06
uncurated
Locomotor_activity
Bill Bug
2006-05-15
C0524637
MeSH-UMLS
2007-03-05
Christine Fennema-Notestine
Recognition_memory
uncurated
Recognition_memory
The memory that someone or something present has been previously encountered. (MeSH)
The cognitive process of remembering/recollecting previously learned material without aid of any external cues.
Free_recall
2007-03-05
2006-05-15
Free_recall
pending final vetting
Christine Fennema-Notestine
BF_T0000231
Skeletomotor_reflex_activity
Skeletomotor_reflex_activity
2007-03-06
2007-03-06
A behavioral activity expressing immediate sensory-motor integration through activation of muscular-driven process (BB:2007-03-05).
Bill Bug
uncurated
memory function
Cognitive_function
introspective function
2007-03-05
Cognitive functions are a type of behavioral function giving rise to actions only percieved internally by the individual in which the function inheres, though this internal perception may ultimately give rise to an externalized action (BB).
Bill Bug
creative function
belief function
imaginative function
reasoning function
uncurated
emotional function
conceptual function
perceptual function
The examples are derived from the Wikipedia page on 'Mental function.' Perhaps a more narrow set of examples that specifically fit to our requirements in BIRN would be more appropriate. A more authoritative neuropsychological source should also be used, as some of these examples may be considered by neuropsychologists to be degenerate - e.g., 'belief function' is_a 'imaginative function' (BB:2007-03-05).
A specific instance of engaging a cognitive function leads to the creation of a mental event distinct from the cognitive functional process itself. The event of perceiving something, for instance, is different from the perceptual process in its entirety — the overall ability to perceive things. In other words, an instance of perceiving is different from the cognitive function that makes it possible (BB:2007-03-05 - derived from Wikipedia).
2007-03-05
volitional function
Cognitive_function
2007-03-06
Bill Bug
Touch_stimulus_triggered_activity
2007-03-06
uncurated
Touch_stimulus_triggered_activity