Editing Metacognition (section)

==Works of art as metacognitive artifacts==
The concept of metacognition has also been applied to [[reader-response criticism]]. [[Narrative]] [[Work of art|works of art]], including novels, movies and musical compositions, can be characterized as metacognitive [[Cultural artifact|artifact]]s which are designed by the artist to anticipate and regulate the beliefs and cognitive processes of the recipient,<ref>{{Cite journal | author=Lång, Markus | title=Teksti metakognitiivisena artefaktina: Sanataiteen ja säveltaiteen ontologiaa | journal=Synteesi | volume=17 | issue=4 | year=1998 | pages=82–94 | issn=0359-5242 | url=http://www.mlang.name/metakognitio.html | language=fi |trans-title=Text as a Metacognitive Artifact: Literary and Musical Ontology }}<br />{{Cite journal | author=Lång, Markus | title=Elokuva metakognitiivisena artefaktina: Reseptioesteettinen katsaus | journal=Synteesi | volume=21 | issue=1 | year=2002 | pages=59–65 | issn=0359-5242 | url=http://www.mlang.name/elokuva.html | language=fi |trans-title=Film as a metacognitive artifact: Reader-response critical review }}</ref> for instance, how and in which order events and their causes and identities are revealed to the reader of a detective story. As Menakhem Perry has pointed out, mere order has profound effects on the aesthetical meaning of a text.<ref>{{Cite journal | author=Perry, Menakhem | year=1979 | title=Literary Dynamics: How the Order of a Text Creates Its Meanings |journal=Poetics Today | volume=1 | issue=1–2 | pages=35–64, 311–361 | jstor=1772040 | doi=10.2307/1772040}}</ref> Narrative works of art contain a representation of their own ideal reception process. They are something of a tool with which the creators of the work wish to attain certain aesthetical and even moral effects.<ref>Lång 1998, p. 88.</ref>