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Pavlov

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Pav·lov (pvlôf, -lv, pävlf), Ivan Petrovich 1849-1936.
Russian physiologist known for his discovery of the conditioned response. He won a 1904 Nobel Prize for his research on the nature of digestion.

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
[pav′lôv, pä′vlôf]
(1849-1936), a Russian physiologist who discovered a pattern of conditioned stimulus-reflex learning, the manner in which the physiologic mechanism of digestion is controlled by the nervous system, and a theory of the causes and treatment of human neuroses.


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Pavlov said the "revolution was made by a madman with syphilis of the brain".
BULGARIAN kid Tomislav Pavlov has been snatched away from Celtic by old club CSKA Sofia.
That got a shoulder shrug, as I knew it would, and I suggested the possibility that (a) Pavlov never had a dog, but just made up a story to wow the media or (b) he had a bunch of dogs but never named any, just assigned them random numbers.
 
 
 
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