Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, stumbled upon this phenomenon when he realized his dogs drooled at the sound of a bell, expecting food to follow. Thus, classical conditioning, or Pavlovian ...

In Ivan Pavlov's famous classical conditioning experiment in experimental psychology dealing with simple forms of learning, a dog could be trained to salivate when it heard a bell.

There must also be another neutral stimulus that does not yet bring about a natural response. In Pavlov’s experiment, this is the sound that the bell makes. During Conditioning ...

That phenomenon, known as classical conditioning, is at the heart of most animal behavior studies today. A couple of weeks ago, Pavlov’s name came up on this blog in a surprising context.

First, the author of the book (Anthony Burgess) noted that sometimes, there can be accidental side effects to classical conditioning. Pavlov actually discovered this himself way back in the famous ...

The paper, “Pavlov's Cockroach: Classical Conditioning of Salivation in an Insect,” appears in the June 13th issue of PLoS ONE, the online, open-access journal from the Public Library of Science.

Pavlov's conditioning experiments with dogs are one of the most well-known studies in scientific history, and now research from the University of Western Australia (UWA) has shown that plants can ...

First, the author of the book (Anthony Burgess) noted that sometimes, there can be accidental side effects to classical conditioning. Pavlov actually discovered this himself way back in the famous ...