Pavlov Dies: The Scientist Who Made Dogs Drool for Science
Ivan Pavlov started the experiments that produced classical conditioning research entirely by accident — he was studying canine digestion when he noticed the dogs salivated at the sight of food before it arrived. He spent twenty years investigating that reflex. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1904 for digestive research, not for conditioning. The conditioning work came after the Prize, which turned out to be more famous than the reason he'd won it.
February 27, 1936
90 years ago
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