I said:
> 
>     I note that contrary to what is stated, Pavlov neither used a bell
> in his famous experiment nor won the Nobel Prize for it. 

Chris Green replied:

> Actually, it turns out that Pavlov did use a bell sometimes. There was
> an article about it some years ago: 

Nope. Roger Thomas' fine article notwithstanding, I stand by my claim. 
While there were rare occasions on which Pavlov used a bell, successful 
salivary conditioning (his "famous experiment")  was not one of them. I 
seem to recall that in his 1906 review in _The Lancet_ he mentioned the 
_unsuccessful_ use of a loud bell, but I'd have to check that. He did use 
something sometimes referred to as an "electric bell", but that seems to 
be what we (and Anrep, I recall)  would describe as a buzzer. A metronome 
was his favourite.  This leads to an intriguing mystery: why is it so 
widely believed that Pavlov used a bell in salivary conditioning when he 
didn't?

> Indeed, I own a video made in Pavlov's lab (in the 1930s, I believe)
> in which a bell is actually used at one point. You can purchase it
> through the Archives for the History of American Psychology at the
> University oif Akron.

The bell was used in the film only to demonstrate an orienting reflex, 
not salivary conditioning. Depictions of salivary conditioning, as I 
recall, were mostly with a metronome. 
> 
> Pavlov won the 1904 Nobel Prize for medicine, though for the earlier
> work on digestion 

Yes. Not for his famous experiment.

Stephen
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