metacognition
higher-order thinking that enables understanding, analysis, and control of one’s cognitive processes, especially when engaged in learning.
Origin of metacognition
1Other words from metacognition
- met·a·cog·ni·tive [met-uh-kog-ni-tiv], /ˌmɛt əˈkɒg nɪ tɪv/, adjective
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How to use metacognition in a sentence
On the basis of those observations, he believes the phenomenon is tied to increased activation of the frontopolar cortex, which plays a role in metacognition—awareness of one’s own thought processes.
I taught myself to lucid dream. You can too. | Neel V. Patel | August 25, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewSome philosophers and neuroscientists have sought to develop the idea that metacognition is the essence of consciousness.
We can endow them with metacognition—an introspective ability to report their internal mental states.
My colleagues and I are trying to implement metacognition in neural networks so that they can communicate their internal states.
For instance, a basic form of metacognition, confidence, scales with the clarity of conscious experience.
British Dictionary definitions for metacognition
/ (ˌmɛtəkɒɡˈnɪʃən) /
psychol thinking about one's own mental processes
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