TY - JOUR
AU - Jellinger, K. A.
AB -  Herbert S. Terrace and Janet Metcalfe , eds . Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press , 2005 ; Hardback , 364 pp ., ISBN 0‐19‐516156‐4 ; Price UK£ 46.00 The important question, whether humans are unique in having self‐reflective consciousness or can precursors to the central form of human consciousness be found in non‐human species, is dealt with in the present book, edited by two eminent psychologists and neurobiologists from Columbia University, New York, together with a group of experts from USA, Canada, and Germany, who have examined this question from a variety of perspectives. The book clearly shows diverging opinions about the self‐thought process, metacognition, and representation. Some of the authors argue that these types of cognitive abilities are uniquely human, while others are convinced that at least the precursors of self‐reflective consciousness exist already in non‐human primates. After an introduction – From Descartes to Darwin and beyond (the editors) – the missing link in cognition is discussed in 13 chapters. Episodic memory and autognosis are suggested to be uniquely human (E. Tulving, New York, ON,Canada), while investigations of the emergence of these capabilities, in a primordial form suggest that great apes, and even monkeys, appear to 
TI - The Missing Link in Cognition. Origins of self‐reflective consciousness
JF - European Journal of Neurology
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2009.02672.x
DA - 2009-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-missing-link-in-cognition-origins-of-self-reflective-consciousness-7qq5jykUQu
SP - e130
EP - e130
VL - 16
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -