These are terms from psychology, and the Cognitive Atlas and Neurosynth lesson that might be useful to know.
These are kinds of entities in the Cognitive Atlas.
- concept is an idea in cognitive psychology that is represented as an entity in the Cognitive Atlas
- task is a behavioral paradigm or activity used to measure one or more concepts. It could be an activity you do in the scanner, or filling out a questionnaire on paper.
- phenotype is a general descriptor for an individual, encompassing disorders, personality traits, and behaviors.
- meta-analysis is a statistical approach to combine the results of several studies. Traditionally, you might have to read say, 100 papers. With a tool like neurosynth, you can use an analytical method to (more more easily) do the same, and produce a statistical brain map to summarize what you find.