Animals show monitoring, but does monitoring imply awareness?
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.
Mazzoni
Giuliana
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Department of Psychology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ 07079 mazzongi@shu.edu.