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Drawing the line on metacognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Janet Metcalfe
Janet Metcalfe
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 Metcalfe@Columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/metcalfe/jm.html
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Abstract

Only two of the many experiments described by Smith et al., as indicating metacognitive ability in nonhuman animals, involved metacognition as understood in the human literature. Of these, one gave negative results. In the other, one of two rhesus monkeys provided data suggesting that he might have metacognitive ability. The conjecture that any nonhuman animals have metacognitive ability is, therefore, tenuous.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 350 - 351
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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