BI 107 Steve Fleming: Know Thyself
Brain Inspired
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Is There a Second Order Representation in Animals?
The paradigms thus far that have been used in animals and it gets harder and harder to train animals just to do the paradigms, let alone do them accurately metacognitively. So I think this is a challenge for human research as well. You can make these really complicated tasks that really separate out the sort of implicit from the explicit because you can actually report on your confidence. There's some face validity just to reports. But there are low level explanations for how that could be implemented implicitly as well. And so that's not a fail safe measure of an animal's metacognitimals.
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