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 ...

A self-driving car, a chiming sound, and one very alert chiweenie: How classical conditioning shows up in surprising ways.

In simple terms: Pavlov would ring a bell prior to feeding his dogs (his test subjects); the dogs were quickly conditioned and came to associate the ringing of the bell with the presentation of food.

Most of you have probably heard about Pavlov and his dogs. It was one of the first experiments in making any living thing ...

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 ...

As much of a hullaballoo as Ivan Pavlov created with bells, dog food and dogs, I can’t imagine the uproar now that his doggie ...

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov stumbled on the theory of classical conditioning (or the ‘Pavlovian response’) entirely by accident while researching dogs’ digestive secretions.