Does metacognition necessarily involve metarepresentation?
Against the view that metacognition is a capacity that parallels theory of mind, it is argued that metacognition need involve neither metarepresentation nor semantic forms of reflexivity, but only process-reflexivity, through which a task-specific system monitors its own internal feedback by using quantitative cues. Metacognitive activities, however, may be redescribed in metarepresentational, mentalistic terms in species endowed with a theory of mind.
Proust
Joëlle
J
Institut Jean-Nicod CNRS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Ecole Normale Supérieure), 75007 Paris, France; and Max-Planck Institut Für Psychologische Forschung, Münich, Germany jproust@ehess.fr http://joelle.proust.free.fr.