Metacognition: new developments and challenges

Invited Speakers:

·         Ophélia Deroy (Munich)

·         Steve Fleming (UCL)

·         Louise Goupil (IRCAM)

·         John Morrison (Columbia)

·         Josef Perner (Salzburg)

·         Joëlle Proust (CNRS)

·         Alex Rosati (Michigan)

Topic

In recent years the scope of metacognition has expanded. Metacognitive processes seem to be involved in practically all cognitive faculties: perception, action, memory, learning, decision making, and conceptual thought are some examples. It encompasses many cases where metacognition operates without the person engaging in deliberate monitoring or control. Evidence for metacognition also extends to pre-verbal infants and non-human animals. But are there fundamentally different types of metacognition involved in different cases? And how should we capture the distinction: procedural vs. analytic, experience-based vs. information-based, implicit vs. explicit, core vs. late-developing, or some other way?

For enquires about the conference please get in touch with Joulia Smortchkova [email protected].  

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No. 681422. For further information about the ‘Metacognition of Concepts’ project, see the project’s website: http://www.nicholasshea.co.uk/