Editing Animal cognition (section)

=== The cognitive revolution ===
{{Main|Cognitive revolution}}
Beginning around 1960, a "cognitive revolution" in research on humans<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Niesser U | date = 1967 | title = Cognitive Psychology}}</ref>  gradually spurred a similar transformation of research with animals. Inference to processes not directly observable became acceptable and then commonplace. An important proponent of this shift in thinking was [[Donald O. Hebb]],  who argued that "mind" is simply a name for processes in the head that control complex behavior, and that it is both necessary and possible to infer those processes from behavior.<ref>{{cite book | page = 3 | vauthors = Hebb DO | date = 1958 | title = A Textbook of Psychology}}</ref>  Animals came to be seen as  "goal seeking agents that acquire, store, retrieve, and internally process information at many levels of cognitive complexity".<ref>{{cite book | pages = 2 | vauthors = Menzel R, Fischer J | date = 2010 | title = Animal Thinking: Contemporary Issues in Comparative Cognition}}</ref>