Robert R. Hampton is a researcher in comparative cognition. In a rhesus-monkey memory in animals experiment, animals could choose whether to take a test; declining was related to conditions in which memory in animals was less reliable. This design tests monitoring of a currently available memory in animals rather than relying on verbal reports. Appropriate performance supports an account of memory in animals monitoring, while the relation to human subjective experience remains a separate explanatory question. [ref]
Rhesus monkeys know when they remember by Robert R. Hampton. 2001, memory-test acceptance and decline experiments
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