Methodological problems in animal metacognition research

• NAKAO HISASHI

  School of Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies

• GOTO KAZUHIRO

  Sagami Women's University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• メタ認知研究の方法論的課題
• メタ ニンチ ケンキュウ ノ ホウホウロンテキ カダイ

Abstract

This paper considers methodological problems in animal metacognition studies. After summarizing a variety of experimental designs to study animal metacognition, we review recent literature that were not included in Fujita (2010)'s more comprehensive review. We then examined Carruthers (2008; Carruthers and Rithie 2012)' skeptic argument against animal metacognition. He argued that no experiments thus far successfully exclude the possibility that animals, as well as human infants, elicit "metacognitive" responses without explicitly and consciously monitoring internal representations. We argued that newly developed experimental paradigms to study explicit memory processes could be a key to reject Caruuthers' skeptic argument and thus facilitate understanding how we access to the internal representations.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology

  Japanese Journal of Animal Psychology 65 (1), 45-58, 2015

  THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY

Keywords

• Metacognition
• implicit and explicit processes
• self-reflective cognition
• philosophy of science

Details

• CRID: 1390282680183269760
• NII Article ID: 130005076106
• NII Book ID: AN10363631
• DOI: 10.2502/janip.65.1.1
• ISSN: 18809022
• ISSN: 09168419
• NDL BIB ID: 026572291
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I026572291
• Text Lang: en
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