Brandl Johannes Beran Michael J. Perner Josef - Foundations of Metacognition

Foundations of Metacognition

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Michael J. Beran
Johannes L. Brandl
Josef Perner
Jolle Proust

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This volume is based on the joint effort of an interdisciplinary group of biologists, psychologists, and philosophers to get a better understanding of the foundations of metacognition. The group worked together for 3 years in an interdisciplinary collaborative research project directed by Jolle Proust. The group consisted of Michael J. Beran, Johannes L. Brandl, Josep Call, Hannes Leitgeb, Josef Perner, Bernard Renault, and J. David Smith, as well as the collaborators Markus Aichhorn, Alexandre Billon, Mehmet Cakmak, Simone Duca, Frank Esken, Monika Hildenbrand, Daniela Kloo, Anna Loussouarn, Christine Maria Mauer, Bibiane Rendl, Michael Rohwer, and Benjamin Weiss. The project entitled Metacognition as a Precursor to Self-Consciousness: Evolution, Development and Epistemology was part of the Eurocores Programme Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context funded by the European Science Foundation as well as by the National Research Agencies of Austria, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The editors would like to thank these organizations for their financial support. We also express our gratitude to Eva Hoogland and Chloe Kembery from the European Science Foundation and to Martin Baum and Charlotte Green from Oxford University Press that made this collaboration both pleasant and fruitful. Most of all, however, we would like to thank the authors who accepted our invitation to join this project for their exciting contributions.

Michael J. Beran
Johannes L. Brandl
Josef Perner
Jolle Proust

Michael J. Beran, Johannes L. Brandl, Josef Perner, and Jolle Proust

Justin J. Couchman, Michael J. Beran, Mariana V.C. Coutinho, Joseph Boomer, and J. David Smith

Jonathon D. Crystal

Kazuo Fujita, Noriyuki Nakamura, Sumie Iwasaki, and Sota Watanabe

Josep Call

Peter Carruthers and J. Brendan Ritchie

Josef Perner

Beate Sodian, Claudia Thoermer, Susanne Kristen, and Hannah Perst

Frank Esken

Johannes L. Brandl

Daniela Kloo and Michael Rohwer

S. R. Beck, E. J. Robinson, and M. G. Rowley

Paul L. Harris, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Elisabeth S. Pasquini, Melissa Koenig, Maria Fusaro, and Fabrice Clment

Asher Koriat

Jolle Proust

Hannes Leitgeb

Zoltn Dienes

Tillmann Vierkant

Janet Metcalfe and Lisa K. Son

Jrme Dokic

Paul Egr and Denis Bonnay

S. R. Beck

University of Birmingham, UK

Michael J. Beran

Georgia State University, USA

Denis Bonnay

Institut Jean-Nicod, Paris

Joseph Boomer

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA

Johannes L. Brandl

University of Salzburg, Austria

Josep Call

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

Peter Carruthers

University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Fabrice Clment

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Kathleen H. Corriveau

Harvard University, USA

Justin J. Couchman

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA

Mariana V. C. Coutinho

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA

Jonathon D. Crystal

Indiana University, USA

Zoltn Dienes

University of Sussex, UK

Jrme Dokic

EHESS, Institut Jean-Nicod, France

Paul Egr

Institut Jean-Nicod, France

Frank Esken

University of Osnabrck/University of Bielefeld, Germany

Kazuo Fujita

Kyoto University, Japan

Maria Fusaro

University of California at Davis, USA

Paul L. Harris

Harvard University, USA

Sumie Iwasaki

Kyoto University, Japan

Daniela Kloo

University of Salzburg, Austria

Melissa Koenig

University of Minnesota, USA

Asher Koriat

University of Haifa, Israel

Susanne Kristen

University of Munich, Germany

Hannes Leitgeb

University of Munich, Germany

Janet Metcalfe

Columbia University, USA

Noriyuki Nakamura

Chiba University, Japan

Elisabeth S. Pasquini

Harvard University, USA

Josef Perner

University of Salzburg, Austria

Hannah Perst

University of Munich, Germany

Jolle Proust

Institut Jean-Nicod, France

J. Brendan Ritchie

University of Maryland, College Park, USA