Emotion Based Regulatory System for Metacognition

Abstract

Research in the last few decades focused on the aim to develop intelligent agents capable of simulating human behavior. Artificial General intelligence (AGI) made it possible to build such an agent and still the ongoing research in this area is mainly focusing to utilize cognitive abilities. Cognitive model is a system with processes like perception, attention, emotions, memory, metacognition, reasoning, learning etc. Emotions are cognitively based states that provide heuristic solutions along with automatic solutions to certain problems and mediate between plans, motivation, goal and attention shifting and may play a vital part in metacognition. Metacognition is an executive controller that is used for the regulation of cognition just to for the sake to get intelligent behavior. Research regarding mutual influence of emotion and metacognition is very limited. Researchers have had their main focus on psychopathology (emotion disorders) and on generation of emotions. Keeping in view this relationship and due to lack of effort focusing specifically on emotion and metacognition, an “Emotion Based Regulatory for Metacognition” has been designed .The cognitive model discuses mainly the relation between emotion and metacognition and more specifically role of emotion in metacognition.