Meta-cognition in Animals: A Skeptical Look

By Peter Carruthers. 2008

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Lien Van Eylen
2. Dorit Bar‐On
3. Lee H. de-Wit
4. Santiago Arango-Munoz
5. Tobias Starzak
6. Albert Newen
7. R. Van der Hallen
8. Kris Evers

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Dorit Bar‐On
2. Santiago Arango-Munoz
3. Tobias Starzak
4. Albert Newen
5. Johan Wagemans
6. Alain Morin
7. Ben Alderson-Day
8. Charles Fernyhough

In Social Psychology

1. Dorit Bar‐On
2. Santiago Arango-Munoz
3. Tobias Starzak
4. Albert Newen
5. Johan Wagemans
6. Alain Morin

Citations in the corpus

• Origins of Meaning: Must We 'Go Gricean'? (2013, background): “4 For discussion of the myth, see Bar-On, 1995; Bar-On and Green, 2010; and Wharton, 2009, pp. 184ff. 5 See, e.g., Whiten, 1996; Heyes, 1998; Povinelli and Vonk, 2003; Penn and Povinelli, 2007; Call and Tomasello, 2008; Carruthers, 2008; Bermúdez, 2009; and Lurz, 2011.”
• How to ascribe beliefs to animals (2020, background): “Section (2) of this paper is dedicated to defending our reading of the argument. view see Carruthers, 2008)2.”
• The nature of epistemic feelings (2014, background): “…both the mindreading capacity and mental concepts (who are thus unable to introspect), such as young children and non-human animals (Bermúdez, 2009; Carruthers, 2008), are able to have these kinds of feelings and to exploit them in order to control some of their cognitive activities such as…”
• Self-Awareness Part 1: Definition, Measures, Effects, Functions, and Antecedents (2011, background): “…responses during perceptual or memory tasks – see Smith, 2009), but because so many nonmentalistic accounts of animals' performance on these measures are available, it remains difficult to conclude that they indeed assess metacognition per se – and thus self-awareness (Carruthers, 2008).”
• Precise minds in uncertain worlds: predictive coding in autism. (2014, background): “Meta-cognition, conceptualized as the ability to monitor and adaptively use uncertainty, is generally fragile, costly and only conclusively demonstrated in a few, cognitively higher developed species (Carruthers, 2008; J. D. Smith, 2009; J. D. Smith, Coutinho, Church, & Beran, 2013).”