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 ...

A UCSF study led by Kerala scientist Vijay Namboothiri challenges Pavlov’s theory that repetition drives learning.

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 ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...

Psychology sometimes gets a bad rap due to people's memories of classic studies, many of which seemed to have a disturbing twist. Pavlov's dog conditioning experiment involved presenting dogs with ...

Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov famously trained the canines in his experiments to salivate in response to the sound of a bell, which was a showcase of classical conditioning. These days, robotics ...