Pav·lov (p v lôf , -l v, pävl f), 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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