title: Semantics and metaphysics in informatics: toward an ontology of tasks.
abstract: This article clarifies three principles that should guide the development of any cognitive ontology. First, that an adequate cognitive ontology depends essentially on an adequate task ontology; second, that the goal of developing a cognitive ontology is independent of the goal of finding neural implementations of the processes referred to in the ontology; and third, that cognitive ontologies are neutral regarding the metaphysical relationship between cognitive and neural processes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa.
authors.forename: Carrie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Figdor
mesh_terms: D064229:Biological Ontologies; D001931:Brain Mapping; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans
keywords: Cognitive control; Cognitive neuroscience; Cognitive ontology; Cognitive phenomics; Cognitive tasks; Informatics; Response selection; Semantics