title: Defining an ontology of cognitive control requires attention to component interactions.
abstract: Cognitive control is not only componential, but those components may interact in complicated ways in the service of cognitive control tasks. This complexity poses a challenge for developing an ontological description, because the mapping may not be direct between our task descriptions and true component differences reflected in indicators. To illustrate this point, I discuss two examples: (a) the relationship between adaptive gating and working memory and (b) the recent evidence for a control hierarchy. From these examples, I argue that an ontological program must simultaneously seek to identify component processes and their interactions within a broader processing architecture.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Badre
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D001931:Brain Mapping; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans