Primate Cognition is the study of cognitive processes, which represent internal mental
processes involved in discriminations, decisions, and behaviors of humans and other …

Comparative and cognitive psychologists interpret performance in different ways. Animal
researchers invoke a dominant construct of associative learning. Human researchers …

Knowing the extent to which nonhumans and humans share mechanisms for metacognition
will advance our understanding of cognitive evolution and will improve selection of model …

Metamemory entails cognitively assessing the strength of one's memories. We tested the
ability of nine Long-Evans rats to distinguish between remembering and forgetting by …

Previous studies have indicated that rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) but not capuchin
monkeys (Cebus apella) respond to difficult or ambiguous situations by choosing not to …

Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control one's cognition. Monitoring may involve
either public cues or introspection of private cognitive states. We tested rhesus monkeys …

Metacognition refers to the use of one's cognitive processes to coordinate behavior. Many
higher cognitive functions such as feeling-of-knowing judgment and theory of mind are …

Metacognition refers to thinking about thinking, and there has been a great deal of interest in
how this ability manifests across primates. Based on much of the work to date, a tentative …

The term “mail-order bride” originated on the American frontier in the nineteenth century. At
that time, the number of men on the frontier far outnumbered the number of available …

Ongoing research explores whether animals have precursors to metacognition—that is, the
capacity to monitor mental states or cognitive processes. Comparative psychologists have …