Abstract Cognitive computing in mind is an important part of intelligent humancomputer interaction (HCI), which attracts increasing attention from researchers in recent years. The development of the research advances in home and abroad is surveyed. Firstly, the conceptions correlated to cognitive computing in mind are introduced, and then the mechanisms and research contents in Mindreading are described in detail. Secondly, main neurobiological achievements of mental cognition are summarized and the research status of cognitive state in mind is compared to affective state. Moreover, the application trends of mental cognition in HCI are analyzed from two aspects of model establishment and mode extraction. Then, the primary frames that vision cognitive computing model of mental state with multilevel and multimode information fusion is put forward. The existing problems and the significance of cognitive computing in mind are firally discussed.
