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Metacognition is considered one of humans' most sophisticated cognitive capacities.
First, metacognition is considered one of humans' most sophisticated cognitive capacities and possibly a uniquely human cognitive capacity.
This fascinating article raises questions about the nature and possible varieties of metacognition and uncertainty monitoring, and about which creatures might exhibit which varieties.
Our response summarizes this consensus and the support for the idea that these performances demonstrate animal metacognition.
By using the same uncertainty-monitoring paradigms across species, it should be possible to map the phylogenetic distribution of metacognition and illuminate the emergence of mind.
In investigations of the meta-level process per se, the painstaking avoidance of subtle cueing may be less relevant, and an indirect metacognition paradigm suitable.
If metacognition is the internalized cognitive guidance of the parent, one will not see it in monkeys who don't parent in that way.
Inadequate integration would contribute to unstable cognitive processing in the interpersonal arena and impaired metacognition defined as immature or faulty analysis of interpersonal situations.
All agree that pigeons failed this test of metacognition.
