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What is the modular architecture of mental constructs? Based on several performance metrics, partitioning brain-behavior components into 6, 8, and 22 notions was validated to give the best results. This approach revealed a coherent hierarchy of candidate cognitive ontologies, pooling information from a corpus of thousands of brain scans from published stimulus-response experiments. The number of mental function terms was determined by how well term usage in paper articles predicted evoked neural activity responses (forward inference) and how well these functional brain circuit changes predicted the term usage (reverse inference). This seminal study yielded several findings that are in conflict with canonical psychology literature and widespread teaching at universities worldwide. As such, to oppose the incumbent expert-designed terms to denote cognitive processes, there is now ample opportunity for next-generation text mining tools to let the data speak for themselves, thus carving out fresh boundaries around functional domains of the human mind. Reproduced with permission from Beam et al.67

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