On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:22:46 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: >I have been surrounded by Russian speaking folks for the past few days
Sounds like you've fallen into bad company. ;-) >and I am curious if the books reflect Pavlov's birth place as St.Petersburg or >Leningrad. Which books are you referring to? For an official-ish brief biography, see the following on the Nobel Prize website: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1904/pavlov-bio.html Here's the Wikipedia entry (yadda-yadda) on Ryazan, Pavlov's birthplace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryazan >Was the bell person a die hard Commie? First, according the Wikipedia entry on Pavlov, he used number of different stimuli as an unconditioned stimulus (UCS); see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov Quoting from the article: |It is popularly believed that Pavlov always signaled the occurrence of food |by ringing a bell. However, his writings record the use of a wide variety of |stimuli, including electric shocks, whistles, metronomes, tuning forks, and a |range of visual stimuli, in addition to ringing a bell. Catania[13] cast doubt |on whether Pavlov ever actually used a bell in his famous experiments. |Littman[14] tentatively attributed the popular imagery to Pavlov’s contemporaries |Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev and John B. Watson, until Thomas[15] |found several references that unambiguously stated Pavlov did, indeed, use a bell. Thomas' work can be found here: http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?5.80 Second, Pavlov did much of his research under tsar but it was recognized as being an important Russian achievement after the communists took over (see the Nobel prize biography). However, see this reference for his views of the Soviet Union in 1923: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1419871 Now a question for your Russian friends: what right-bank Ukrainian polkovnik did Mazepa screw over before switching over to the Swedish side? :-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11759 or send a blank email to leave-11759-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
