Everybody knows about Pavlov’s dogs—the pooches who taught us about conditioning by being trained to salivate at the sound of the bell. But what kind of dog did he use? Easily trainable German ...

In Ivan Pavlov’s famous experiments conditioning dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell, timing mattered. The quicker the food followed the bell, the stronger the dog’s response the next time it rang ...

A little of Pavlov’s dog is hiding in all of us, scientists said after an experiment in which they taught human volunteers to associate abstract computer images with ice cream. Russian scientist Ivan ...

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. At ...