Retrospective and Prospective Metacognitive Judgments in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)

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• Alternative Title:
  Anim Cogn
• Personal Author:
  Morgan, Gin ; Kornell, Nate ; Kornblum, Tamar ; Terrace, Herbert S.
• Description:
  A growing body of research suggests that some non-human animals are capable of making accurate metacognitive judgments. In previous studies, non-human animals have made either retrospective or prospective judgments (about how they did on a test or how they will do on a test, respectively). These two types of judgments are dissociable in humans. The current study tested the abilities of two rhesus macaque monkeys to make both retrospective and prospective judgments about their performance on the same memory task. Both monkeys had been trained previously to make retrospective confidence judgments. Both monkeys successfully demonstrated transfer of retrospective metacognitive judgments to the new memory task. Furthermore, both monkeys transferred their retrospective judgments to the prospective task (one, immediately, and one, following the elimination of a response bias). This study is the first to demonstrate both retrospective and prospective monitoring abilities in the same monkeys and on the same task, suggesting a greater level of flexibility in animals' metacognitive monitoring abilities than has been reported previously.
• Subjects:
  Animals Article Choice Behavior Cognition Judgment Macaca Mulatta Male Memory Metacognition Monkeys Reward Risk Time Factors Transfer (Psychology)

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• Source:
  Anim Cogn. 17(2):249-257
• Pubmed ID:
  23812677
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC3883882
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 MH081153/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; 5R01MN081153/MN/OMHHE CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6a8bd189b8830c04cd9661ac85803857b01e60329795c67b3ac1a9fb097bd25e
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29819/cdc_29819_DS1.pdf
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