{"pk":29612,"title":"A hierarchical model of metacognition","subtitle":null,"abstract":"I present a novel method of conceptualizing metacognition in a computational hierarchy. Metacognition is commonlydescribed as cognition acting on itself, and correlates with enhanced performance in memory, reasoning, emotional reg-ulation, and motor skills. Understanding metacognition requires surmounting two barriers: its high-level abstraction anddisputed terminology. To overcome these barriers I employ a computational cognitive architecture to first define the baseunits of cognition and how they come to act on themselves. Well-defined computational units are built up into a hierarchyof cognitive processes. These forms of cognition are then connected back to clarify the research literature. Each formis built into working models within ACT-R to support this hierarchical systems viability. The intention of this hierar-chical model is to help clarify the nature of metacognition by supplementing verbal cognitive definition with rigorouscomputational terminology.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Session 1","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fg5t98j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Brendan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Conway-Smith","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"West","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carleton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29612/galley/19471/download/"}]}