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Animals show monitoring, but does monitoring imply awareness?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2004

Giuliana Mazzoni
Giuliana Mazzoni
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079 mazzongi@shu.edu
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Abstract

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The very clever studies reviewed by Smith et al. convincingly demonstrate metacognitive skills in animals. However, interpreting the findings on metacognitive monitoring as showing conscious cognitive processes in animals is not warranted, because some metacognitive monitoring observed in humans appear to be automatic rather than controlled.

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Brief Report
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , June 2003 , pp. 349 - 350
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press