Ivan Pavlov was born in a small village in central Russia. His family hoped that he would become a priest, and he went to a theological seminary. After reading Charles Darwin, he found that he ...

The study indicates our addiction to smartphones reflects Pavlov's conditioning experiments, with our brains responding ...

In 1894, Ivan Pavlov summarized the physiological state of knowledge about digestion in this way: The digestive canal is in its task a complex chemical factory. The raw material passes through a ...

Conducted in 1919-1920, a nine-month-old baby was subject to a conditioning experiment to make him fear certain animals. Carried out by psychologist John B. Watson and his grad student Rosalie Rayner, ...

Pavlov trained his dogs to start salivating in response to all sorts of stimuli, but in contrast to many popular accounts, never a bell, according to Daniel Todes’ biography Ivan Pavlov: A ...