Year: 2020
Type: review
Abstract: Metacognition - the ability to represent, monitor and control ongoing cognitive processes - helps us perform many tasks, both when acting alone and when working with others. While metacognition is adaptive, and found in other animals, we should not assume that all human forms of metacognition are gene-based adaptations. Instead, some forms may have a social origin, including the discrimination, interpretation, and broadcasting of metacognitive representations. There is evidence that each of these abilities depends on cultural learning and therefore that cultural selection might shape human metacognition. The cultural origins hypothesis is a plausible and testable alternative that directs us towards a substantial new programme of research.
Source: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,000
Awards: Neurobiological foundations of flexible social behaviour, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Improving self-awareness: Manipulating the neural substrates of self-belief, G542529931, Improving self-awareness: Manipulating the neural substrates of self-belief, G5882669802, Neurobiological foundations of flexible social behaviour
OpenAlex ID: W3009231711