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 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 ...
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 ...
Nature

Pavlov's Physiology Factory: Experiment, Interpretation, Laboratory Enterprise

In 1894, Ivan Pavlov summarized the physiological state of knowledge about digestion in this way: The digestive canal is in its task a complex chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long ...