MindModeling@home is a non-profit research project that uses volunteer distributed computing

Distributed computing

Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...

 for the advancement of cognitive science

Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...

. The research focuses on utilizing computational cognitive process modeling

Cognitive model

A cognitive model is an approximation to animal cognitive processes for the purposes of comprehension and prediction. Cognitive models can be developed within or without a cognitive architecture, though the two are not always easily distinguishable.In contrast to cognitive architectures, cognitive...

to understand the human mind better. The project aims to improve on the scientific foundations that explain the mechanisms and processes that enable and moderate human performance and learning. MindModeling@Home is based at the Cognitive Engineering Research Institute in Mesa, AZ.