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Using a proper mental model during mental processes is often crucial. Such a mental model has to be learnt and maintained; this involves mental model adaptation. Metacognition is applied to control use and adaptating in a context-sensitive manner. In this chapter, a second-order adaptive network model for handling mental models, covering their use, adaptation and control, is discussed and used to illustrate these processes.
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Canbaloğlu, G., Treur, J. (2023). Modeling Mental Models: Their Use, Adaptation and Control. In: Canbaloğlu, G., Treur, J., Wiewiora, A. (eds) Computational Modeling of Multilevel Organisational Learning and Its Control Using Self-modeling Network Models. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 468. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28735-0_4
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