The brain is where are the representations in memory that is all human things that surround their mutual relations as abstract concrete, and their characteristics, from which flow all his reasoning, making is in fact a kind of formal ontology. The formal ontology 1 published here results from personal bibliographic notes, without encyclopaedic pretensions, on readings collected at the mercy of time and circumstances. Constituting a knowledge index on the brain resource available on the web, it aims to gradually describe brain anatomy of elements, its terminology, its functions and disorders. The information sources are cited with access links. The presentation mode of that ontolgy uses the paradigm of mind maps, as no other appear more appropriate for the description of the brain. The main sources are cited from Wikipedia in French and Wikipedia in English, the work of Bruno Dubuc in Canada, the Belgian medical site http://www.e-sante.be/, the site psychoweb, the site the french "Académie des Sciences", the site of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences of the CNRS, the site of the Faculty of Medicine of Rennes 1, the website of the Neuroland-Art Association, the Wapedia encyclopedy, the Swiss medical journal site the site http://brodmann.psyblogs.net/, and the medical encyclopedia Vulgaris. Moving images of trensparent brain come indirectly from http://lifesciencedb.jp/ . The translation of this ontolgy is still in progress... remaining resources are in their original version. We apologize for any inconvenience. 1 Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist, and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. Although ontology as a philosophical realm is academic in the sense that it is inseparable from each thinker's epistemology, it has practical application in information science and information technology. |
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