scholarly journals Towards a formal neurophenomenology of metacognition: modelling meta-awareness, mental action, and attentional control with deep active inference

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Sandved Smith ◽  
Casper Hesp ◽  
Antoine Lutz ◽  
Jérémie Mattout ◽  
Karl Friston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Hierarchical Level ◽  
Metacognitive Skills ◽  
Active Inference ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Covert Action ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Psychiatric Conditions ◽  
And Control ◽  
Monitor And Control

Metacognition refers to the capacity to access, monitor, and control aspects of one’s mental operations and is central to the human condition and experience. Disorders of metacognition are a hallmark of many psychiatric conditions and the training of metacognitive skills is central in education and in many psychotherapies. This paper provides first steps towards the development of a formal neurophenomenology of metacognition. To do so, we leverage the tools of the active inference framework, extending a previous computational model of implicit metacognition by adding a hierarchical level to model explicit (conscious) meta-awareness and the voluntary control of attention through covert action. Using the example of mind-wandering and its regulation in focused attention, we provide a computational proof of principle for an inferential architecture apt to enable the emergence of central components of metacognition: namely, the ability to access, monitor, and control cognitive states.

scholarly journals Towards a computational phenomenology of mental action: modelling meta-awareness and attentional control with deep parametric active inference

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Sandved-Smith ◽  
Casper Hesp ◽  
Jérémie Mattout ◽  
Karl Friston ◽  
Antoine Lutz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Control ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Hierarchical Level ◽  
Active Inference ◽  
Mental Action ◽  
Perceptual Object ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Policy Selection ◽  
Current Content ◽  
And Control

Abstract Meta-awareness refers to the capacity to explicitly notice the current content of consciousness and has been identified as a key component for the successful control of cognitive states, such as the deliberate direction of attention. This paper proposes a formal model of meta-awareness and attentional control using hierarchical active inference. To do so, we cast mental action as policy selection over higher-level cognitive states and add a further hierarchical level to model meta-awareness states that modulate the expected confidence (precision) in the mapping between observations and hidden cognitive states. We simulate the example of mind-wandering and its regulation during a task involving sustained selective attention on a perceptual object. This provides a computational case study for an inferential architecture that is apt to enable the emergence of these central components of human phenomenology, namely, the ability to access and control cognitive states. We propose that this approach can be generalized to other cognitive states, and hence, this paper provides the first steps towards the development of a computational phenomenology of mental action and more broadly of our ability to monitor and control our own cognitive states. Future steps of this work will focus on fitting the model with qualitative, behavioural, and neural data.

Developing a reflective mind: the emergence of core metacognition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Goupil ◽  
Sid Kouider
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Late Childhood ◽  
Decision Confidence ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
And Control ◽  
Preverbal Infants ◽  
Do So ◽  
Monitor And Control

Metacognition constitutes the ability to monitor and control cognition. Because young children often provide inaccurate metacognitive judgements when prompted to do so verbally, it has long been assumed that this ability does not develop until late childhood. This claim is now challenged by new studies using non-verbal paradigms and revealing that basic forms of metacognition - such as the ability to estimate decision confidence or to monitor errors - are present even in preverbal infants. This new line of evidence suggests that young children adapt to their environment not only by considering their physical and social surroundings, but also by reflecting upon their own cognitive states.

scholarly journals Developing a Reflective Mind: From Core Metacognition to Explicit Self-Reflection

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Goupil ◽  
Sid Kouider
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Late Childhood ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Decision Confidence ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Metacognitive Judgments ◽  
And Control ◽  
Preverbal Infants ◽  
Do So ◽  
Monitor And Control

Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control cognition. Because young children often provide inaccurate metacognitive judgments when prompted to do so verbally, it has long been assumed that this ability does not develop until late childhood. This claim is now challenged by new studies using nonverbal paradigms and revealing that basic forms of metacognition—such as the ability to estimate decision confidence or to monitor errors—are present even in preverbal infants. This new line of evidence suggests that young children adapt to their environment not only by considering their physical and social surroundings but also by reflecting on their own cognitive states.

The politics of the Hajj organisation in Senegal: security, legitimation and clientelism

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Cédric Jourde ◽  
Marie Brossier ◽  
Muriel Gomez-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Security Concerns ◽  
And Control ◽  
Monitor And Control

ABSTRACTThis article analyses how the state in Senegal has managed the hajj since the liberalisation era in the early 2000s. Although the essence of the hajj is religious, it is also deeply political and requires that the state manages complex relations with pilgrims, religious leaders, private travel agencies, politicians and Saudi authorities. This article argues that three inter-related imperatives structure the conduct of the Senegalese state: a security imperative, a legitimation imperative, and a clientelistic imperative. Security concerns lead the state to monitor and control pilgrims travelling to Mecca. Legitimation is seen in the collaborative relations with Sûfi orders and in the framing of the hajj organisation as a ‘public service’. Finally, given the magnitude of financial and symbolic resources attached to the hajj, clientelistic relations are constitutive of state officials’ actions. Overall, despite the post-2000 liberalisation of the hajj, the state has maintained its role as a gatekeeper, regulator and supervisor.

A POWER CONSUMPTION ACTIVITY BASED HETEROGENEOUS SOA FRAMEWORK FOR CONTEXT-AWARE HOME SERVICES

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. 1211-1230 ◽  
Author(s):  
HYUN SANG CHO ◽  
TAKEKAZU KATO ◽  
TATSUYA YAMAZAKI ◽  
MINSOO HAHN
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Control Function ◽  
Home Network ◽  
Network System ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Flexible Architecture ◽  
And Control ◽  
Monitor And Control

The home network is one of the emerging areas from the last century. However, the growth of the home network market is stationary at present. This paper describes the limitations of the home network system and the requirements for overcoming the current limitations. Also described is a new home network service system known as COWS and its easy installation and scalable operation. COWS consists of power consumption monitor and control devices along with a service server that is a complementary combination of Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) and web services. A home network system has a dynamic, heterogeneous, distributed, and scalable topology. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been proposed as a solution that satisfies the requirement of a home network, and OSGi and web services are two successful SOA-based frameworks. An included service server has a flexible architecture that consists of a core and extendable service packages. A power consumption monitor and control function provides useful context information for activity-based context-aware services and optimizes the power consumption. The system can be installed easily into existing and new houses to solve the current barrier of the popularization of home network services.

Investigation of Ventilation Monitoring and Controlling System for Supercavitation Experiment in the Water-Tunnel Based on Configuration Software

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 3219-3222
Author(s):  
Shan Shan Li ◽  
Peng Wang ◽  
Xu Han ◽  
Jin Feng Liu ◽  
Xiao Gang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Configuration Software ◽  
Water Tunnel ◽  
Controlling System ◽  
Ventilation Monitoring ◽  
The Future ◽  
Numerous Data ◽  
And Control ◽  
Monitor And Control

The supercavitation weapon is a new concept weapon moving at a high speed underwater, which is devised applying the characteristic of supercavitation reducing the resistance of water, and it may be widely used in the future. The present ventilating system has many shortcomings, such as less automation and numerous data cannot be measured and recorded timely. In this paper, the automatic monitor and control ventilating system of supercavitation water-tunnel was developed using configuration software and PLC. All parameters can be measured, recorded and displayed automatically via using of the system. It has many advantages such as higher automation, convenience, and easy maintenance.

IoT enabled system to monitor and control greenhouse

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhishek Kumar ◽  
Vikrant Singh ◽  
Saurabh Kumar ◽  
Shiva Pujan Jaiswal ◽  
Vikas Singh Bhadoria
Keyword(s):  
And Control ◽  
Monitor And Control
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