Process catalog

This catalog defines 172 cognitive processes organized into 19 categories. Each process has a definition, references, and links to the tasks that engage it. Of the 172 processes, 152 are linked to at least one task in the task catalog.

Categories

Category	Processes	Description
Associative Learning and Reinforcement	13	Learning of stimulus-stimulus, stimulus-response, and action-outcome contingencies under reinforceme…
Auditory and Pre-Attentive Deviance Processing	4	Pitch perception, auditory tone discrimination, acoustic processing, auditory perception; the family…
Awareness, Agency, and Metacognition	13	Conscious experience of perception (perceptual awareness, masking); metacognitive monitoring and con…
Cognitive Flexibility and Higher-Order Executive Function	3	Task-set reconfiguration (set shifting), rule updating, strategy selection, goal maintenance. Curren…
Emotion Perception and Regulation	5	Recognition of emotional signals (face, voice, body), affective priming, cognitive reappraisal, expr…
Face and Object Perception	12	Processes that recover identity, category, or structure from sensory form: face identity, face perce…
Implicit and Statistical Learning	2	Acquisition of structure without explicit instruction: implicit memory, procedural memory. Paradigm-…
Inhibitory Control and Conflict Monitoring	9	Response inhibition, response conflict, conflict monitoring, interference control, executive attenti…
Language Comprehension and Production	16	Mapping sound or text to meaning and meaning to articulation: lexical access, word recognition, read…
Long-Term Memory	21	Encoding, consolidation, retrieval; recall and recognition; recollection and familiarity; source mem…
Motor Preparation, Timing, and Execution	16	Motor planning, response selection, motor preparation, action initiation, response execution, motor…
Perceptual Decision-Making (Evidence Accumulation)	1	Integration of noisy sensory evidence to a decision criterion.
Reasoning and Problem-Solving	11	Deductive, inductive, causal, analogical, mathematical reasoning; hypothesis testing; categorization…
Reward Anticipation and Motivation	6	Anticipation of reward, consumption of reward, incentive salience, effort allocation, approach motiv…
Selective and Sustained Attention	11	Attention networks (alerting, orienting, executive attention); selective attention; sustained attent…
Short-Term and Working Memory	9	Active maintenance, manipulation, working-memory updating, rehearsal, chunking; visual working memor…
Social Cognition and Strategic Social Choice	11	Theory of mind (canonical: hed_perspective_taking; hed_mentalizing was merged during the reframe…
Spatial Cognition and Navigation	2	Mental rotation; spatial memory.
Value-Based Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty	7	Choice among options that differ in subjective value: valuation, value-based decision making, choice…