Proposal for Integrative Description for Qualitative Brain Function Model based on Device Ontology

Abstract

In the field of cognitive neuroscience, various cognitive architectures have been proposed to provid the bridge between the cognitive function and neural structure. However, these architectures are highly individual and the models based on different architectures are not likely to be referenced among researchers. In this study, integrative description for organizing viewpoints for these models is proposed, in which the devices are defined as cell populations which transfers a kind of information into another. As a domain description, the devices subserving saccadic eye movement are defined based on the device ontology.