{"659186":{"#nid":"659186","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences: Accelerating Research and the Spread of Knowledge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENew research in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and other fields is published every day, but the gap between what is known and the capacity to act on that knowledge has never been larger.\u0026nbsp;Scholars and non-scholars alike face the problem of how to organize knowledge and to integrate new observations with what is already known.\u0026nbsp;Ontologies \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;formal, explicit specifications of the meaning of the concepts and entities that scientists study \u0026mdash;\u0026nbsp;provide a way to address this\u0026nbsp;and other challenges, and thus to accelerate progress in behavioral research and its application. A new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/catalog\/26464\/ontologies-in-the-behavioral-sciences-accelerating-research-and-the-spread\u0022\u003Econsensus study\u003C\/a\u003E on the matter from the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nationalacademies.org\/home\u0022\u003ENational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine\u003C\/a\u003E, includes contributions from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nasonline.org\u0022\u003ENAS\u003C\/a\u003E member\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\/randall-w-engle\u0022\u003ERandall Engle\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/psychology.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Psychology\u003C\/a\u003E and principal investigator of Georgia Tech\u0026#39;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/englelab.gatech.edu\/index\u0022\u003EAttention and Working Memory Lab\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2022-06-30 17:12:54","changed_gmt":"2022-06-30 17:12:54","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/nap.nationalacademies.org\/catalog\/26464\/ontologies-in-the-behavioral-sciences-accelerating-research-and-the-spread","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"167710","name":"School of Psychology"},{"id":"76091","name":"Randall Engle"},{"id":"190871","name":"behavioral sciences"},{"id":"9173","name":"ontology"},{"id":"180698","name":"National Academies of Sciences"},{"id":"516","name":"engineering"},{"id":"189530","name":"and Medicine"},{"id":"190872","name":"consensus study"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}