Behavioral activity

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The has_integral_part restriction can be used to define complex activities that include a specific sensory component, such as a stimulus-triggered type of activity, where the stimulus targets one or more sensory modalities This restriction is not required or defining, but it declares what other continuants can be associated with a type of behavioral activity to create more complex activities. Right now, that is limited to sensory perception associated with a particular sensory stimulus. It's possible this is not quite the right type of obo_ro mereological relation, but it seemed like an appropriate start. When a sensory perception is involved in an activity, it would be hard to refer to that disposition as a proper_part, though possibly this should just fall back to the more generic obo_ro:part_of (BB).

2007-03-06

This seems a bit contrived but appears to be an appropriate way to classify the sub-classes of behavioral activity derived from this class. These certainly are dispositions inhering in the entity performing the activity. There are also many behavioral activities where it really is a non-sequetor to call them behavioral functions - e.g., 'smoking' is certainly a behavior, but it really makes little sense to represent a 'smoking function' and underlying 'smoking process.' Describing behavior as an activity to which an entity is disposed makes it possible to represent very complex behaviors for which the corresponding behavioral function(s) and underlying process(es) are not yet characterized. Note also that one can describe the activity without proscribing the associated function and underlying process - e.g., ants and humans can both be said to be disposed toward expressing 'locomotive behavior', and, yet, the associated 'locomotor function' and underlying 'locomotor process' in each organism is very different. Note also that behavior in general is not restricted to organic 'living' entities but can also be expressed by 'non-living' entities such as the old 'bobbing bird' toy or an automatic loom. Specific entities may have specific dispositions for expressing certain sets of behavioral activities (BB:2007-03-05).

* Behavior; the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment or surrounding world of stimuli. (NCI) * Conceptually broad term referring to any or all aspects of human or animal behavior. Use a more specific term if possible. (PSY) * The conscious tendency to act, usually an aspect of mental process. (NCI) * The observable response a person makes to any situation. (MSH) * The specific actions or reactions of an organism in response to external or internal stimuli. Patterned activity of a whole organism in a manner dependent upon some combination of that organism's internal state and external conditions. [ISBN:0395448956, WB:ems] (GO) * human or animal activity studied in terms of motivation, direction, result, emotion, perception, or etiology. (CSP)

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Behavioral activity

2007-08-22

Behavioral activity

Overt activity inhering in the action of instantiating a behavioral function. In other words, the expressed activity resulting from the action of the behavioral process which makes up a given behavioral function (BB: 2007-03-05).

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These descriptions of activity are intended to be used to represent behavior at the level of organism, typically engaging complex brain circuitry, multple brain regions, and complex effector systems. It is not intended for descriptions of single cell activity.

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