Table 1.

Mind–Brain Ontology

Psychology	Example	Brain
Complex psychological category	Emotion (e.g., anger, sadness, fear, etc.), cognition (i.e., thoughts, memories, and beliefs), perception, posttraumatic stress disorder	Neural reference space
Psychological ingredient	Core affect, conceptualization/mentalizing, executive attention	Distributed network
Basic mechanism	Representing autonomic sensory cues, coding uncertainty, etc.	Circuit
Momentary mental state	Specific instance of “anger”	Neural assembly/brain state