Behavioral and Neural Indices of Metacognitive Sensitivity in Preverbal Infants.

ABSTRACT: Humans adapt their behavior not only by observing the consequences of their actions but also by internally monitoring their performance. This capacity, termed metacognitive sensitivity [1, 2], has traditionally been denied to young children because they have poor capacities in verbally reporting their own mental states [3-5]. Yet, these observations might reflect children's limited capacities for explicit self-reports, rather than limitations in metacognition per se. Indeed, metacognitive sensitivity has been shown to reflect simple computational mechanisms [1, 6-8], and can be found in various non-verbal species [7-10]. Thus, it might be that this faculty is present early in development, although it would be discernible through implicit behaviors and neural indices rather than explicit se

SUBMITTER: Goupil L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5130696 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature