NPR

From Rats To Humans, A Brain Knows When It Can't Remember

The human brain knows what it knows. And so, it appears, does a rat brain. Rats have shown that they have the ability to monitor the strength of their own memories, researchers from Providence College ...
ucdavis.edu

Brain Changes Accompany Development of Metamemory from Childhood to Adolescence

The ability to reflect on memories and assess their quality is important for learning. This "metamemory" ability appears in elementary school-age children and develops into adolescence, UC Davis ...
Science Daily

Creating artificial intelligence that acts more human by 'knowing that it knows'

Development of metamemory in AI system allows it to adjust its understanding based on what it already knows, learning and evolving based on its environment as humans do. A research group from the ...
Psychology Today

Artificial Intelligence With Metamemory Acts More Humanlike

In cognitive psychology, metamemory refers to the ability to self-monitor and control one’s learning and memory. Metamemory is a field of study within metacognition, the study of the thinking about ...
JSTOR Daily

A different view of metamemory with illustrations from children's beliefs about long-term retention

Vol. 13, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF METACOGNITION THEORETICAL ISSUES AND EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS (MARCH 1998), pp. 9-28 (20 pages) We argue that metamemory has traditionally been ...