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Concept Categories


Classified under Action

(10 Concepts)


response execution
motor program
movement
action
adaptive control
motor control
response selection
action initiation
object manipulation
motor planning

Classified under Attention

(37 Concepts)


spatial selective attention
object-based attention
attention capacity
preattentive processing
attentional blink
sustained attention
attention
visual attention
focused attention
attentional effort
attentional focusing
search
visual search
conjunction search
fixation
cue validity
unconscious process
focus
joint attention
selective attention
attention shifting
attention span
attention shift
visual working memory
spatial working memory
spatial attention
serial search
passive attention
involuntary attention
inattention
divided attention
distraction
central attention
capacity limitation
auditory attention
attentional state
attentional resources

Classified under Emotion

(33 Concepts)


arousal (emotion)
negative emotion
anxiety
pain habituation
pain sensitization
affect recognition
emotional decision making
valence
humor
happiness
emotion
emotional suppression
excitation
humiliation
fear
indignation
grief
regret
taste aversion
shame
empathy
frustration
sadness
emotional expression
mood
facial expression
surprise
emotional intelligence
emotion perception
pain
emotion recognition
stress
emotional mimicry

Classified under Executive/Cognitive Control

(43 Concepts)


Mindset
selective control
proactive control
response conflict
working memory maintenance
resistance to distractor inference
self control
supervisory attentional system
interference resolution
planning
self monitoring
top down processing
monitoring
working memory
task set
goal maintenance
updating
active maintenance
inhibition of return
goal state
manipulation
metamemory
task switching
behavioral inhibition (cognitive)
cognitive control
semantic working memory
set shifting
goal
working memory storage
working memory retrieval
maintenance
central executive
visuospatial sketch pad
response inhibition
resource limit
phonological working memory
performance monitoring
inhibition
goal management
goal formation
error detection
cognitive load
chunking

Classified under Language

(96 Concepts)


conceptual combination
semantic processing
music semantics
syntax
visual string recognition
visual pseudoword recognition
visual word recognition
semantic network
syntactic parsing
auditory lexical access
semantic category
discourse planning
discourse production
discourse processing
phonological encoding
neologism
phonemic paraphasia
paraphasia
grammatical encoding
acoustic phonetic processing
articulatory planning
lexical access
phonological buffer
language learning
linguistic competence
phonation
semantic knowledge
deep structure
graphemic buffer
diphthong
coreference
phonetics
discourse
alveolar
metaphor
meaning
dative shift
lexicon
lexical processing
illocutionary force
morphology
pronunciation
parsing
speech perception
intonation
naming
auditory word comprehension
auditory word recognition
conversational speech
conversational structure
internal speech
text processing
language
lexical retrieval
orthographic lexicon
phonological retrieval
prosodic stress
conceptual planning
speech production
syntactic processing
word generation
word order
word pronunciation
word repetition
discourse knowledge
morphological processing
sentence comprehension
sentence processing
sentence production
reading
past tense
language production
proper noun
text comprehension
auditory sentence comprehension
word comprehension
conversation
lexical encoding
word recognition
language processing
interrogative
narrative
language acquisition
grapheme
discourse comprehension
prosody
connotation
speech processing
orthography
lexical ambiguity
lemma
articulation
verbal fluency
language comprehension
sublexical route
semantic memory

Classified under Learning and Memory

(116 Concepts)


reinforcement learning
place maintenance
visual place recognition
working memory updating
word maintenance
tool maintenance
string maintenance
pattern maintenance
object maintenance
body maintenance
spontaneous recovery
conceptual category
priming
proactive interference
category learning
metacognitive skill
auditory encoding
active retrieval
articulatory rehearsal
source memory
episodic learning
context memory
long-term memory
primary memory
consolidation
adaptation
reconsolidation
retention
visual memory
deep processing
knowledge
intermediate-term memory
retroactive interference
instrumental learning
recognition
elaborative rehearsal
skill acquisition
forgetting
association learning
autobiographical memory
iconic memory
sensory memory
perceptual learning
explicit memory
episodic memory
motor learning
tactile working memory
habit memory
phonological loop
retrieval
echoic memory
automaticity
rehearsal
spatial memory
intentional forgetting
intentional learning
familiarity
memory retrieval
active recall
generalization
articulatory loop
remote memory
false memory
aversive learning
skill
prospective memory
auditory memory
auditory working memory
categorical clustering
concept learning
context dependent
contingency learning
cue dependent forgetting
decay of activation
declarative knowledge
declarative memory
declarative rule
distributed coding
emotional memory
explicit learning
face recognition
gustatory memory
habit
implicit memory
instrumental conditioning
learning
nondeclarative memory
procedural knowledge
procedural learning
prototype
relational learning
retrieval cue
rule learning
sequence learning
short-term memory
source monitoring
traumatic memory
episodic buffer
memory acquisition
recall
rehearsal loop
chunk
serial learning
incidental learning
repressed memory
memory
reward processing
encoding
verbal memory
habit learning
motor sequence learning
memory storage
gustatory learning
auditory learning
pavlovian conditioning
expertise

Classified under Motivation

(13 Concepts)


Pavlovian bias
aversive salience
incentive salience
motivational salience
task difficulty
expectancy
curiosity
extrinsic motivation
intrinsic motivation
appetitive motivation
desire
altruistic motivation
altruism

Classified under Perception

(97 Concepts)


dominant percept
transition
visual shape recognition
music perception
visual scene perception
time perception
imagined emotional pain
imagined physical pain
imagined pain
numerosity
auditory tone perception
visual form discrimination
visual color discrimination
detection
visual form recognition
motion detection
emotional face recognition
auditory tone discrimination
color recognition
auditory tone detection
localization
visual perception
discrimination
visual localization
stimulus detection
animacy perception
audiovisual perception
perceptual categorization
perceptual binding
affect perception
binocular convergence
chromatic contrast
feature extraction
figure ground segregation
olfaction
form perception
edge detection
binocular disparity
olfactory perception
auditory localization
kinesthesia
auditory stream segregation
spatial ability
bitterness
acoustic processing
visual masking
gustatory perception
auditory grouping
auditory scene
binocular vision
categorical perception
chemonociception
color perception
conflict detection
object recognition
depth cue
depth perception
face perception
mental imagery
mental rotation
navigation
object detection
object perception
perception
perceptual fluency
perceptual identification
perceptual similarity
preconscious perception
visual buffer
visual representation
echolocation
figure ground reversal
gustation processing
visual object recognition
perceptual skill
melody
rhythm
apparent motion
pattern recognition
nociception
proprioception
auditory perception
audition
acoustic coding
acoustic encoding
gestalt
thermosensation
somatosensation
stereopsis
multisensory integration
auditory masking
acuity
unisensory
multisensory
subliminal perception
synchrony perception
feature detection

Classified under Reasoning and Decision Making

(64 Concepts)


abductive reasoning
judgment
utility
context representation
decision under uncertainty
numerical comparison
decision certainty
risk processing
feature comparison
confidence judgment
risk
monetary reward prediction error
subjective food value
social inference
subjective value judgment
numerical scale judgment
animacy decision
abstract analogy
analogical problem solving
analogical transfer
availability heuristic
categorical knowledge
causal inference
cognitive heuristic
deductive inference
deductive reasoning
generic knowledge
heuristic search
insight
logical reasoning
loss aversion
mathematical reasoning
mechanical reasoning
pragmatic inference
problem solving
decision
framing
risk seeking
abstract knowledge
crystallized intelligence
categorization
fluid intelligence
conditional reasoning
pragmatic reasoning
deliberation
logic
functional fixedness
mental arithmetic
inductive reasoning
creative problem solving
backward chaining
case based reasoning
reasoning
anchoring
hill climbing
schema
analogical reasoning
inference
uncertainty
decision making
incubation
divergent thinking
intelligence
category based induction

Classified under Social Function

(14 Concepts)


narrative comprehension
reception of facial communication
deception
social intelligence
lying
stereotypes
attachment
social context
communication
social cognition
theory of mind
emotional bonding
resource sharing
conversational skill