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Implicit metacognition, explicit uncertainty, and the monitoring/control distinction in animal metacognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Lisa K. Son
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Barnard College, New York, NY 10025 lson@barnard.edu
Bennett L. Schwartz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 Bennett.Schwartz@fiu.edu http://www.fiu.edu/~schwartb
Nate Kornell
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 nkornell@psych.columbia.edu http://www.columbia.edu/~nk267

Abstract

Smith et al. demonstrate the viability of animal metacognition research. We commend their effort and suggest three avenues of research. The first concerns whether animals are explicitly aware of their metacognitive processes. The second asks whether animals have metaknowledge of their own uncertain responses. The third issue concerns the monitoring/control distinction. We suggest some ways in which these issues elucidate metacognitive processes in nonhuman animals.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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