Towards an Ontology for Mental Functioning Janna Hastings

Purpose of the workshop – What are the uses for ontology in studying the

Schedule • First session – Opening remarks (this) – Mental Functioning and Semantic Search

Schedule (cont’d) • Second session: Ontology and Neuroscience – Mental Functioning IS Neural Functioning:

Schedule (Cont’d) • Third session: Ontology and Biological Investigations – Mental Functioning in the

Schedule (cont’d) • Fourth session: Applications in Psychology, Neuroscience and Medicine – Annotating affective

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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? – 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?

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)

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)

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)

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)