Interesting post Yuri, but I am very confused about your claim that Pavlov’s ideas were ignored: “this mechanism has been neglected by the mainstream of psychologists”. My understanding is that the ideas inspired the U.S. school of Behaviorism where Watson and then Skinner pretty much ruled American psychology from 1920 to the mid 50s. The Cognitive Revolution spearheaded by for example Chomsky, showed that simple rules of learning were not sufficient to explain adult competence. The debate has been revived in a modern form by deep learning, of course,
You are right. Early Pavlov’s ideas of stimulus-response learning and conditioning were not ignored. I had to be more specific that the latest idea of Pavlov about stimulus-stimulus learning was ignored. I’m working on a short paper that will summarise the book’s findings and will try to be more clear in it
Interesting post Yuri, but I am very confused about your claim that Pavlov’s ideas were ignored: “this mechanism has been neglected by the mainstream of psychologists”. My understanding is that the ideas inspired the U.S. school of Behaviorism where Watson and then Skinner pretty much ruled American psychology from 1920 to the mid 50s.
The Cognitive Revolution spearheaded by for example Chomsky, showed that simple rules of learning were not sufficient to explain adult competence. The debate has been revived in a modern form by deep learning, of course,
You are right. Early Pavlov’s ideas of stimulus-response learning and conditioning were not ignored. I had to be more specific that the latest idea of Pavlov about stimulus-stimulus learning was ignored. I’m working on a short paper that will summarise the book’s findings and will try to be more clear in it