The Missing Link in Cognition

Herbert S. Terrace obtained his Ph.D at Harvard University, where he was a student of B.F. Skinner. Partly as a result of Project Nim (an attempt to teach sign language to the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky), his interests changed from behaviourism to animal cognition. Currently, he is investigating the ability of monkeys to remember arbitrary sequences and has provided extensive evidence that they can think about those sequences without language. Janet Metcalfe received her doctorate from the University of Toronto. Although she started her career as a computational modeler of human memory, having developed a composite holographic associative recall model (CHARM), she has, for many years, studied human metacognition. She has published extensively on the mechanisms underlying human metacognitive abilities, and the repercussions of these abilities. She has been an editor of several special issues on human metacognition including the popular volume Metacognition: Knowing about Knowing.

1. Episodic memory and autonoesis: Uniquely human? ; 2. Self-reflective consciousness and the projectable self ; 3. Metacognition and the evolution of language ; 4. Emerging levels of consciousness in early human development ; 5. A continuum of self-consciousness that emerges in phylogeny and ontogeny ; 6. Humans as applied motivation scientists: Self-consciousness from "Shared Reality" and "Becoming" ; 7. Two normative roles for self-consciousness ; 8. Progress in the study of chimpanzee recall and episodic memory ; 9. Do non-human primates have episodic memory ; 10. Studies of uncertainty monitoring and metacognition in animals and humans ; 11. Can Rhesus monkeys discriminate between remembering and forgetting? ; 12. Meta-confidence judgements in Rhesus Macaques: Explicit versus implicit mechanisms ; 13. The self and other: A missing link in comparative social cognition