Mediational Role of Cognition in Behaviour Formation
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We wondered--and that was exciting to us--would we be able to account for behaviour that seems to demand analysis in terms of purpose, foresight, cognition, planning, and so forth, in a simpler and more mechanistic way?... ecause of the complexity of the intact mammalian nervous system, some researchers believe that more fundamental progress will be made from the analysis of simpler systems such as the headless roach or Aplysia ( Cooper, Bloom, & Roth, 110-14; Thompson, Patterson, & Teyler, 73-104 )....