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- Title
If metacognition exists in other species, how does it develop?
- Authors
Campos, Ruth; Karmiloff-Smith, Annette
- Abstract
It is argued that in any species, the comparative study of metacognitive abilities must be approached from a developmental perspective and not solely from the adult end state. This makes it possible to explore the trajectories by which different species reach their phenotypic outcome and whether different cognitive systems interact over developmental time. Second, using the research comparing different genetic disorders in humans, the authors' claim that it is unparsimonious to interpret the same performance in humans and animals in qualitatively different ways is challenged, because even the same overt behavior in different groups of humans can be sustained by different underlying cognitive processes.
- Subjects
METACOGNITION; HUMAN beings; COGNITIVE ability; SPECIES; SELF-perception; INTELLECT
- Publication
Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 3, p342
- ISSN
0140-525X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0140525X03240085