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November 2002
The human mind: Mind, the map
The human genome has been, largely, sequenced. And work continues on the proteome and transcriptome. Now comes a call to map the human 'behaviourome'. Darryl Macer, of Tsukuba University, is calling for a mental mapping project to explore the similarities and differences between individuals and cultures. It would help with the classification of human ideas into categories such as memory, planning and sensory states. And it would also help us to understand cultural diversity. The project is to be launched with a meeting in Japan next February.
The next challenge is to map the human mind
DARRYL R. J. MACER
An ambitious project aims to chart
the territory of ideas: vast but, conceivably, not infinite.
Nature
420, 121 (2002); doi:10.1038/420121a
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