Cognitive processes¶
The Catalog defines 172 cognitive processes organized into 19 categories. A process is a mental operation hypothesized to occur during a trial, with an identifiable onset, an eliciting condition and a measurable signature; the process selection criteria say what qualifies and what does not. Each process has a definition, references, and links to the tasks that engage it. 152 of the 172 processes are engaged by at least one task in the Catalog; the rest are kept because the Catalog may grow a task for them.
Categories group processes by research tradition for browsing. They are organizational labels, not ontological commitments: a process belongs to the category whose scope best describes where it is studied, and categories imply no inheritance.
Two ways in:
Processes by category lists every process under its category, with the category’s scope statement.
Processes alphabetically lists every process in name order, for when you know the name and not the category.
Categories at a glance¶
Category |
Processes |
|---|---|
13 |
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4 |
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13 |
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3 |
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5 |
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12 |
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2 |
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9 |
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16 |
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21 |
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16 |
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1 |
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11 |
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6 |
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11 |
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9 |
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11 |
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2 |
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7 |