you've probably heard of "Pavlov's dogs" or "Pavlov's bell." The phrases often describe situations where someone responds to a stimulus like they've been trained to do so. That's exactly where ...

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.

To measure the output of the dogs’ salivary glands, Pavlov surgically exposed these glands and fixed saliva-collecting tubes to the dogs’ cheeks. The oft-quoted “bell” used as a conditioned stimulus ...

Pavlov also offered physicians a new therapeutic product: natural gastric juice produced by his “factory dogs.” By World War I, proceeds from selling bottled gastric juice had increased the ...

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 ...