Meta-Cognitive Attention: Reasoning about Strategy Selection

Both human learners and Case-Based Reasoning systems have applied metacognitive strategies such as self-questioning to improve the learning process. Whereas case-based reasoning systems do not allocate attention to reasoning strategies in order to facilitate strategy selection, previous work on attention in human thinking has focused on the selection of domain objects. We describe a computational model of metacognitive attention which integrates metacognitve approaches in case based reasoning with the concept of attention which is applied to the reasoning process itself. An example of our implementation, lULJAN, will illustrate the process of allocating metacognitive attentio

Introspection Planning: Representing Metacognitive Experience

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Can metacognition be explained in terms of perceptual symbol systems?

Barsalou's theory of perceptual symbol systems is considered from a metacognitive perspective. Two examples are discussed in terms of the proposed perceptual symbol theory. First, recent results in research on feeling-of-knowing judgement are used to argue for a representation of familiarity with input cues. This representation should support implicit memory. Second, the ability of maintaining a theory of other people's beliefs (theory of mind) is considered and it is suggested that a purely simulation-based view is insufficient to explain the available evidence. Both examples characterize areas where Barsalou's theory would benefit from additional detail.</jats:p