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Animal metacognition? It's all in the methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Sara J. Shettleworth  and
Jennifer E. Sutton
Sara J. Shettleworth
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada shettle@psych.utoronto.ca sutton@psych.utoronto.ca http://psych.utoronto.ca/~shettle/ http://psych.utoronto.ca/~sutton/
Jennifer E. Sutton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada shettle@psych.utoronto.ca sutton@psych.utoronto.ca http://psych.utoronto.ca/~shettle/ http://psych.utoronto.ca/~sutton/
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Abstract

When animals choose between completing a cognitive task and “escaping,” proper interpretation of their behavior depends crucially on methodological details, including how forced and freely chosen tests are mixed and whether appropriate transfer tests are administered. But no matter how rigorous the test, it is impossible to go beyond functional similarity between human and nonhuman behaviors to certainty about human-like consciousness.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 353 - 354
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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