Metacognition: pre-verbal infants adapt their behaviour to their knowledge states
Gliga, Teodora and Southgate, Victoria (2016) Metacognition: pre-verbal infants adapt their behaviour to their knowledge states. Current Biology 26 (22), pR1191-pR1193. ISSN 0960-9822.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.065
Abstract
Metacognitive abilities, such as knowing we know something or that we made the wrong decision, can be powerful tools for adapting behaviour and accelerating learning. Apes, dolphins, and even rats demonstrate some such abilities; a new study provides evidence that human infants can too.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Brain and Cognitive Development, Centre for (CBCD) |
| Depositing User: | Teodora Gliga |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2016 13:52 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:27 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/16466 |
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