Assertion: brown rat | /r/HasAspect | the capacity
Facets:
value: for metacognition
type: PURPOSE
value: to consider their own learning
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Laboratory (brown) rats may have the capacity for metacognition—to consider their own learning and then make decisions based on what they know, or do not know, as indicated by choices they make apparently trading off difficulty of tasks and expected rewards, making them the first animals other than primates known to have this capacity, but these findings are disputed, since the rats may have been following simple operant conditioning principles, or a behavioral economic model.