The SKOS controlled vocabulary of the Sensory Stimulation Ontology (SSTIM). It mints the multilingual concepts and concept schemes used as values in SSTIM descriptions: sensory modalities, stimulation mechanisms and techniques, evidence tiers, caution and session-reporting values, and implementation metadata.

Prefix

sstim.vocab

Keywords

audio-visual entrainment binaural beats brainwave entrainment evidence tiers isochronic tones multisensory integration paced breathing sensory stimulation vibrotactile stimulation

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository Request Discussion

Publications

2026 SSTIM Workbench: Open Sensory Stimulation Platform and SSTIM Ontology

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local unique identifiers in Sensory Stimulation Ontology Controlled Vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*$

Example Local Unique Identifier

alpha   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Sensory Stimulation Ontology Controlled Vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^sstim\.vocab:[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*$

Example CURIE

sstim.vocab:alpha

Contact

Renato Fabbri   0000-0002-9699-629X   ttm

Contributor

creator Renato Fabbri   0000-0002-9699-629X   ttm

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Semantic Farm schema can be found here.

Part Of (bfo:0000050 )

sstim

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier alpha is used to demonstrate the providers available for Sensory Stimulation Ontology Controlled Vocabulary. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.