MAPPED Repository: An information System for the Emerging Unified Community of Researchers in Cognitive, Neuro and Computer Sciences

The disconnect between scientific schools of thought across the world is most notable in cognitive, neural, and computer sciences. The intersection of these fields is exactly where a powerful new approach has emerged recently, known as Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA). Here we describe a new initiative: to build an open informational resource for the emerging international community of researchers unified by the BICA Challenge - the challenge to create a computational replica of the human mind using solutions inspired by the brain. We call it the MAPPED repository, named by the following six components: Models, Architectures, People, Paradigms, Evaluations, and Dialogues, all represented by six components of the unified database.