3 papers
q-bio.NC2026
Metacognitive Skill Learning: A Computational Account
Brendan Conway-Smith
This dissertation presents the first formal theory of metacognitive skill learning. Metacognition, the capacity to monitor and control one's own cognitive processes, has been widel…
cs.AI2026
Enhancing Metacognitive AI: Knowledge-Graph Population with Graph-Theoretic LLM Enrichment
Deniz Askin, Gal Hadar, Brendan Conway-Smith
Metacognition-the ability to monitor one's own knowledge state, spot gaps, and autonomously fill them--remains largely absent from modern AI. Here, we present MetaKGEnrich, a fully…
q-bio.NC2024
The Computational Mechanisms of Detached Mindfulness
Brendan Conway-Smith, Robert L. West
This paper investigates the computational mechanisms underlying a type of metacognitive monitoring known as detached mindfulness, a particularly effective therapeutic technique wit…