Metarepresentation and the great cognitive divide: a commentary on Henriques' "psychology defined".
I locate the discontinuity between humans and other animals a bit differently than Henriques (this issue)-in metarepresentational abilities. However, I do think that the justification process might have played a critical role in the development of these metarepresentational abilities.
Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. kstanovich@oise.utoronto.ca
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