In Ivan Pavlov’s famous experiments conditioning dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, timing mattered. The quicker the food followed the bell, the stronger the dog’s response the next time it rang ...

We are approaching the 171st anniversary (September 26th) of the birth of famous Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). Pavlov did pioneering work elucidating the mechanism of the ...

While researching digestion in dogs, Ivan Pavlov noticed that the dogs began to drool as soon as they saw the white coats of the people who fed them; before they could even see or smell their food. At ...

A little of Pavlov’s dog is hiding in all of us, scientists said after an experiment in which they taught human volunteers to associate abstract computer images with ice cream. Russian scientist Ivan ...

Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys' visual cortex. Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a ...