NTR: perceived to occur in

[wdduncan]

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Preferred term label

perceived to occur in

Synonyms

perceived at

Textual definition

A relation between some (subjective affective feeling|affective process) x and either a site or anatomical entity y where some agent subjectively experiences x to occur in y.

Suggested parent term

None

Attribution

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7282-0836 (Finn Wilson)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9625-1899 (Bill Duncan)

cc @Finn1928

[wdduncan]

Notes:

• Initial attempt at definition.
• I prefer the label perceived to occur in to perceived at, but maybe perceived at is better.
• (subjective affective feeling|affective process) means we need to decide between the two terms. I'm not sure at the moment which is better.
• @Finn1928 In the spreadsheet, you note that subjectively experiences is not defined. We may have to live with that.

[wdduncan]

Need to add examples of usage. E.g.,

• facial pain =df feeling of pain and perceived to occur in some face

Still need to think about how to use perceived to occur in with phantom limbs.

[Finn1928]

Calling it 'perceived to occur in' is fine by me! Also, I think I like affective process better. I could see someone wanting to talk about feeling emotions/moods in parts of your body, so allowing that by going up a level makes sense to me. I switched it over to that.

[wdduncan]

@Finn1928 I merged in some updates to pain-edit.owl. If you look that data properties, you will find:

pain occurres in =df "A relation between pain and an anatomical entity in which the pain is subjectively experienced as occurring in the anatomical entity."
domain: pain   
range: anatomical entity  

The relation allows us to easily infer different types of localized pain.
e.g.: pain and 'pain occurs in' some knee is inferred to be knee pain.

phantom limb and referred pain are more difficult. I'm not completely happy with this solution, but here is what I've done.
Define a experienced as relation:

experience as =df definition "A relation between a nervous system process and a mental process in which the nervous system process is gives rise to an experiential mental process."
domain: nervous system process
range: mental process

The purpose of this property is to relate the nervous system processes involved in phantom and referred pain to the where they are experience. Like I said, I'm not satisfied with this, but it is a start ....