A General Architecture for Social Intelligence in the Human Mind & Brain

Substantial evidence has amassed for social cognition in the human mind and brain, but surprisingly little theoretical work exists that organizes the information in a complete, coherent framework. To address this deficiency, we recently developed a general framework of social intelligence. Here we describe multiple further developments. In particular, we develop metacognitive control over the entire process of problem-solving based on social information, including management of multiple simultaneous problems, and active outcome monitoring. We better delineate the critical influence of affect/emotion, and we distinguish structure vs process throughout the model more explicitly, including specifying the inputs and outputs of each main process. Ultimately, a comprehensive social cognitive architecture will be needed for the common model of cognition. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the 9th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures.