Stanford Seminar - Learning, Memory, and Metacognitive Control

Explore the intricacies of learning, memory, and metacognitive control in this Stanford seminar. Delve into traditional cognitive psychology experiments and theories of metacognition, with a focus on self-direction in online platforms. Examine the IARPA Forecasting Competition and opt-in designs where forecasters choose their own questions. Investigate the concept of wisdom of crowds through laboratory experiments and analyze crowd-level performance. Learn about experiments involving self-regulation of work and confidence ratings. Discover ongoing research on task switching, attention, and working memory through various cognitive tasks. Analyze learning curves across age groups and dropout patterns. Explore the modeling of dropout using survival models and the subjective experience of learning progress. Investigate learning dynamics within sessions and aggregate within-session learning curves. Conclude by examining the limitations of human metacognition in this comprehensive exploration of cognitive processes and their applications in online learning environments.

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.