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In recent years there has been a burgeoning interest in the use of cognitive concepts to account for the performances of animals in complex test situations both in the laboratory and in the field. The recent volume stemming from the Guggenheim Conference on animal cognition (1984) published within six years of the major works by O’Keefe and Nadel (1978) and by Hulse, Fowler and Honig (1978) attest to the renewed interest in cognitive mechanisms in animal behavior. Animal psychologists have begun to reconsider the possibility that many of the behaviors exhibited by animals in laboratory as well as field test situations cannot be accounted for simply as chains of S-R associations strung together in complex patterns.
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Ellen, P. (1987). Cognitive Mechanisms in Animal Problem-Solving. In: Ellen, P., Thinus-Blanc, C. (eds) Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3531-0_2
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