Cognitive Atlas
Explore the cognitive moves.
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- REMAPRecord the current map, preserve the facts, make candidates, compare them, then choose what to keep.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- F · FocusChange scale, parts, boundaries, or dimensions with the four Rs.Open guide +Expand4 branches
- REPERSPECTIVEDeliberately re-render the situation from other viewpoints (the other actor, an outsider, your future self) to surface information and incentives your default view hides.Open guide +Expand7 branches
- REROLEReassign what functional job an entity is actually doing (gatekeeper, sensor, bottleneck, translator) instead of what its title says.Open guide +Expand10 branches
- REONTOLOGIZEChange what kind of thing the problem is made of, turning an object into a process, a game, a signal, or an ecology, so new operations become possible.Open guide +Expand10 branches
- REGROUNDReconnect abstract words to observable examples, measurements, and actions, so people can actually tell what counts as an instance.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- RESCHEMABorrow the relational skeleton of a domain you understand and transfer only the structure that survives an explicit mismatch check.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- REORIENTChange the direction of your reasoning, working backward from the endpoint or imagining absence, to collapse a forest of options into a few necessities.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- M · MediumChange the form, layout, notation, or way you work with the map.Open guide +Expand6 branches
- Quick RecipesShort methods that combine cognitive moves. Try one, then check whether it helps.Open guide +Expand20 branches
- Representation forms and carriersWays to show information and work with it.Open guide +Expand7 branches