Metamemory is what allows your brain to say, "Yes, I remember the way," or "No, better check Google Maps." It sounds like a pretty sophisticated ability.

Being able to assess our own memories helps us to avoid errors and prompts us to collect more information to fill the gaps. Psychologists know that this ability is present in elementary school-age ...

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.

Metamemory refers to the ability to self-monitor and control one’s learning and memory. Researchers created an artificial neural network and tasked it to perform a delayed matching-to-sample task.

Evolution of metamemory based on self-reference to own memory in artificial neural network with neuromodulation. Scientific Reports, 2022; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10173-4 ...

This paper provides a critical examination of the current status of metamemory. A review of background influences, current conceptualizations, research methods, and some research findings is provided.

Causal neural network of metamemory for retrospection in primates. Science, 2017; 355 (6321): 188 DOI: 10.1126/science.aal0162 ...

Metamemory refers to one’s awareness, monitoring, and control of memory processes, and it plays a central role in understanding how people assess and regulate their learning. Judgments of ...

More information: Yana Fandakova et al, Changes in ventromedial prefrontal and insular cortex support the development of metamemory from childhood into adolescence, Proceedings of the National ...

To date, this metamemory process, which requires a higher level of self-reflection about our own cognition, was thought by some to be unique to humans, though this research suggests otherwise.