Recent research has turned the spotlight on our closest primate relatives, the chimpanzees, revealing their ability to engage ...

This cognitive skill is known as belief revision. It’s long been considered a hallmark of human rationality that ...

Metacognition is often defined as thinking about thinking. It is exemplified in all the activities through which one tries to predict and evaluate one's own mental dispositions, states and properties ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Condorcet (1785) proposed that a majority vote drawn from individual, independent and fallible (but not totally uninformed) opinions provides ...

Metacognition is a high order thinking skill that is emerging from the shadows of academia to take its rightful place in classrooms around the world. As online classrooms extend into homes, this is an ...

Metacognition—thinking about your thinking—improves learning by sharpening how you interpret experiences rather than merely ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals ...

Metacognition sounds really complex, but it really just means 'thinking about and managing your own thinking.' You might think it sounds difficult to do, but it's something you're probably already ...

In a virtual pharmacy, a real-world student sits at her computer, interacting with an AI-powered simulation. On her screen, a distressed virtual patient demands answers about a new medication. The ...