The Missing Link in Cognition
Origins of Self-Reflective Consciousness
Edited by Herbert S. Terrace and Janet Metcalfe
Price: £47.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516156-4
Publication date: 10 February 2005
392 pages, 16 color illus., 38 b/w illus., 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 mm
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| Description | | How do we develop self-awareness, or a sense of self? One of the most popular theories is that language plays a major role: language and the narrative form allow us to develop a sense of self because this sense is dependent upon representational thought and the psychological manipulation of representations. Some scholars argue against this theory, claiming that more than language and
representational thought is needed. Comparing human and animal cognition is a particularly powerful way of examining this disagreement; if animals possess self-awareness without having the representational linguistic capabilities of humans, then the comparison will provide significant evidence for the argument that language and narrative form do not play the only role, and that researchers may
have overlooked a cognitive link. Terrace and Metcalfe propose to facilitate this work of some participants, such as Endel Tulving, Janet Metcalfe, and Daniel Povinelli, shows that self-awareness, metacognitions, and representational thought are unique to humans, while that of precursors to self-aware thought processes exist in non-human primates, the debate is likely to be lively and
informative. This volume will be of great interest to researchers in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology. |
| Contents |
1.
Episodic memory and autonoesis: Uniquely human?
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Endel Tulving
2.
Self-reflective consciousness and the projectable self
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Janet Metcalfe and Hedy Kober
3.
Metacognition and the evolution of language
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Herbert S. Terrace
4.
Emerging levels of consciousness in early human development
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Katherine Nelson
5.
A continuum of self-consciousness that emerges in phylogeny and ontogeny
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Marcel Kinsbourne
6.
Humans as applied motivation scientists: Self-consciousness from "Shared Reality" and "Becoming"
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E. Tory Higgins
7.
Two normative roles for self-consciousness in modern philosophy
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Patricia Kitcher
8.
Progress in the study of chimpanzee recall and episodic memory
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Bennett L. Schwartz
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Do non-human primates have episodic memory
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Bennett L. Schwartz
10.
Studies of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition in animals and humans
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J. David Smith
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Can Rhesus monkeys discriminate between remembering and forgetting?
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Robert R. Hampton
12.
Meta-confidence judgements in Rhesus Macaques: Explicit versus implicit mechanisms
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Lisa K. Son and Nate Kornell
13.
The self and other: A missing link in comparative social cognition
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Joseph Call
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Herbert S. Terrace and
Janet Metcalfe, both in the Department of Psychology, Columbia University
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