Quote of the day by Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov: 'Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin'

Nobel Prize–winning physiologist Ivan Pavlovs quote of the day stresses that science should go beyond simply recording ...
The Baltimore Sun

Johns Hopkins neuroscientists trace what made Pavlov’s dog salivate

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 ...
The Irish Times

How Pavlov’s doggedness led to a breakthrough in psychology

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 ...
Mail & Guardian

Experiment reveals the Pavlov’s dog in man

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 ...
Science Daily

Pavlov inverted: Reward linked to image is enough to activate brain's visual cortex

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 ...