Foundations of Metacognition
Edited by Michael J. Beran, Johannes Brandl, Josef Perner, and Joelle Proust
Author Information
Michael J. Beran is a Senior Research Scientist at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Oglethorpe University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology from Georgia State University. His research is conducted with humans and nonhuman animals, including chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, capuchin monkeys, rhesus monkeys, and elephants. His research interests include metacognition, numerical cognition, planning and prospective memory, self-control, decision making, and language acquisition.
He is a Fellow of Division 6 and Division 3 of the American Psychological Association. He was the inaugural Duane M. Rumbaugh Fellow at Georgia State University. His research has been featured on numerous television and radio programs and in magazines, including Animal Planet, BBC, New Scientist, the Wall Street Journal, and Scientific American Mind.
Johannes L. Brandl is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg. He received his PhD from the University of Graz, and got tenured at the University of Salzburg. His main areas of research are in philosophy of mind (theories of intentionality and self-awareness), epistemology (externalism and self-knowledge), and in the history of Austrian Phenomenology (the Brentano School). He was Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, the University of California, Irvine, and at the Centre for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.
Josef Perner received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Toronto. He was Professor in Experimental Psychology at the University of Sussex and is now Professor of Psychology and member of the Centre for Neurocognitive Research at the University of Salzburg. He is author of "Understanding the Representational Mind" (MIT Press, 1991) and over 150 articles on cognitive development (theory of mind, executive control, episodic memory, logical reasoning), consciousness (perception versus action), simulation in decision making, and theoretical issues of mental representation, consciousness, and metacognition. He served as President of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academia Europaea, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Association for Psychological Sciences, and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel.
Joelle Proust studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Provence. A researcher at CNRS from 1976, she first conducted research on the history and the philosophy of logic. Her first book, derived from her habilitation thesis, Questions of form (Gallimard, 1986, Minnesota Press, 1989), received the bronze medal of CNRS.?? From then on, she turned to the analytic philosophy of mind: she published articles and books on intentionality and animal cognition (Comment l'Esprit vient aux Betes, Paris, 1997, Les animaux pensent-ils? 2003, 2010). She also explored the kind of awareness associated with agency and personal identity and in its perturbations in schizophrenia and autism. (La Nature de la Volonte, 2005). She further edited or co-edited seven books.
Contributors:
Dr. Sarah R Beck, School of Psychology University of Birmingham, UK
Michael J. Beran, Language Research Center, Georgia State University, USA
Denis Bonnay, Institut Jean-Nicod, France
Joseph Boomer, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
Dr. Johannes Brandl, University of Salzburg Department of Philosophy Faculty of Humanities, Austria
Josep Call, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Professor Peter Carruthers, Department of Philosophy University of Maryland, USA
Fabrice Clément, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Kathleen Corriveau, School of Education, Boston University, USA
Justin J. Couchman, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
Mariana V. C. Coutinho, Department of Psychology, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
Professor Jonathon D. Crystal, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Professor Zoltan Dienes, School of Psychology University of Sussex, UK
Dr. Jérôme Dokic, Institut Jean-Nicod, France
Dr. Paul Egré, Chargé of research Institut Jean-Nicod, France
Dr. Frank Esken, Institute of Cognitive Science University of Osnabrück, Germany
Professor Kazuo Fujita, Graduate School of Letters Kyoto University, Japan
Dr Maria Fusaro, UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, USA
Professor Paul L. Harris, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA
Sumie Iwasaki, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan
Dr. Daniela Kloo, Fachbereich Psychologie Universität Salzburg, Austria
Melissa Koenig, University of Minneapolis, USA
Professor Asher Koriat, Institute of Information Processing and Decision Making University of Haifa, Israel
Susanne Kristen, University of Munich Department of Psychology, Germany
Professor Hannes Leitgeb, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion, Germany
Professor Janet Metcalfe, Psychology Department Columbia University, USA
Dr Noriyuki Nakamura, Center for Frontier Science, Chiba University, Japan
Elisabeth S. Pasquini, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, USA
Professor Josef Perner, University of Salzburg Department of Psychology, Austria
Hannah Perst, University of Munich Department of Psychology, Germany
Dr. Joëlle Proust, Institut Jean-Nicod, France
J. Brendan Ritchie, Department of Philosophy University of Maryland, USA
Professor Elizabeth J. Robinson, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, UK
Michael Rohwer, Fachbereich Psychologie Universität Salzburg, Austria
Dr Martin G. Rowley, School of Psychology, Keele University, UK
Professor Dr. Beate Sodian, University of Munich Department of Psychology, Germany
Associate Professor J. David Smith, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA
Associate Professor Lisa K. Son, Metacognitive Lab Department of Psychology, Barnard College, USA
Claudia Thoermer, University of Munich Department of Psychology, Germany
Dr. Tillmann Vierkant, Philosophy Department University of Edinburgh, UK
Sota Watanabe, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan
