Stanford Seminar - Learning, Memory, and Metacognitive Control

Introduction.
Traditional Cognitive Psychology Experiments.
Theories of Metacognition.
Self-direction on online platforms.
Overview.
IARPA Forecasting Competition (ACE & HFC Program).
Opt-in designs forecasters choose their own questions to answer.
Do self-directed crowds work?.
Galton and the Wisdom of Crowds.
Laboratory Opt-in Experiment.
Example questions.
Crowd-level Performance.
Experiment 2: participants self-regulate amount of work.
Experiment 3: confidence ratings.
Simulating opt-in by categories of questions.
Ongoing work.
Ebb and Flow (task switching).
Lost in Migration (Flanker task).
Memory Match (2-back Working Memory).
Aggregate learning curves across age groups.
Learning separated by early/late dropout.
Modeling dropout with survival models.
Subjective experience of learning progress.
Learning dynamics within sessions.
Aggregate within session learning curves.
Limitations of Human Metacognition.