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SUBMITTER: Zakrzewski AC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4280665 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zakrzewski Alexandria C AC Perdue Bonnie M BM Beran Michael J MJ Church Barbara A BA Smith J David JD
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition 20140811 4
Researchers are exploring whether animals share with humans something like a metacognitive capacity. Though some results point to human-animal continuities in this domain, they face the dominant criticism that animals' performances might be associative. A persistent problem is that animal-metacognition paradigms present static environments of risk and reward that may foster inflexible and conditioned responding. Those environments do not challenge animals to show the flexibility in their decisio ...[more]