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Evidence both for and against metacognition is insufficient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Thomas R. Zentall
Thomas R. Zentall
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 zentall@uky.edu http://www.uky.edu/AS/Psychology/faculty/tzentall.html
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Abstract

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The authors' attempt to explore the ability of animals to monitor how certain they are of their choice behavior, necessarily fails both in their effort to include “higher” mammals (such as monkeys and dolphins) in the class of metacognitive organisms (humans) and in their conclusion that “lower” organisms are not capable of similar behavior.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003, pp. 357 - 358
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press