notable figures: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov

(1849 - 1936)

This Russian physiologist first described classical behavioral conditioning.   (portrait courtesy UIC Department of Neurology)

• Conditioned reflexes: An investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex (G. V. Anrep, Trans.). (Original work published 1927) at Classics in the History of Psychology.

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