Description
Pavlov's research was foundational to the twentieth-century understanding of physiology and psychology, yet much of his work remains untranslated from the original Russian language. In this book, Olga Yokoyama sets out to translate the third volume of Pavlov's Complete Works, as well as his last unpublished paper. This volume also contains the papers from the sixth edition of Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity of Animals, arguably the most impactful work by the 1904 Nobel Laureate. His concept of the conditional reflex has influenced human thought far beyond physiology, affecting the ways we view not only such practical matters as learning and child-rearing, but philosophical questions of the mind and its relationship to the psyche, creativity, and individual freedom.This translation is accompanied by three introductory essays which contextualize Pavlov's work from three perspectives: that of Pavlov's text as it was subjected to translation, that of neuropsychological science today, and that of the history of scientific thought and practices.
Table of Contents
ForewordAcknowledgmentsTranslating Pavlov (Olga T. Yokoyama)Pavlov's Continuing Impact (Michael Fanselow)Reading Pavlov (Daniel P. Todes)Twenty-Years' Experience in the Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity of Animals (1923) Foreword to the Second EditionForeword to the Third EditionForeword to the Fourth EditionForeword to the Fifth EditionForeword to the Sixth EditionIntroductionPavlov 1923 edition (chapters I-XXXV)I. Experimental psychology and psychopathology on animalsII. On the psychic secretion of the salivary glandsIII. The first firm steps on the path of new researchIV. The natural science study of so-called psychic activity in higher animalsV. Conditional reflexes in dogs after destruction of various parts of the cerebral hemispheresVI. On Dr. Gorshkov's cortical taste centersVII. Some most general points regarding the mechanism of the highest parts of the central nervous system as revealed by the study of the conditional reflexesVIII. Towards establishing the general characteristic of complex-nervous phenomenaIX. Further steps in the objective analysis of complex-nervous phenomena as contrasted with their subjective understandingX. General comments on the centers of the cerebral hemispheresXI. Natural science and the brainXII. The challenges and operation of a state-of-the-art research laboratory for the normal activity of the highest part of the central nervous system in the higher animalsXIII. About the food centerXIV. The basic rules governing the work of the cerebral hemispheresXV. The dog with the cerebral skin analyzer destroyedXVI. The cerebral process of stimuli differentiationXVII. The principal laws governing central nervous system activity as revealed through conditional reflex researchXVIII. Summary of results of experiments with extirpation of different parts of the cerebral hemispheres: the conditional reflex methodXIX. Internal inhibition as a function of the cerebral hemispheresXX. Objective research on the highest nervous activity of animalsXXI. The laboratory for research on activity of the central nervous system of higher animals constructed according to plans by Academician I. P. Pavlov and E. A. Ganike, using resources donated by the Kh. S. Ledentsov SocietyXXII. Researching the higher nervous activityXXIII. The special lability of internal inhibition in conditional reflexesXXIV. The "real physiology" of the brainXXV. Conditions for the active and restful states of the cerebral hemispheresXXVI. Data for the physiology of sleepXXVII. The purpose reflexXXVIII. An analysis of certain complex reflexes in the dog: the relative strength of the centers and their charge levelsXXIX. Physiology and psychology in the study of the higher nervous activity of animalsXXX. The freedom reflexXXXI. Psychiatry as a helper for the physiology of the cerebral hemispheresXXXII. A strictly objective study of all the higher manifestations of animal lifeXXXIII. On the so-called animal hypnosisXXXIV. The normal activity and general constitution of the cerebral hemispheresXXXV. "Internal inhibition" of the conditional reflexes and sleep are one and the same processAdded to Pavlov 1924 edition (chapters XXXVI-XXXVIII)XXXVI. The characteristics of the cerebral cortex in terms of changes in the excitability of its various pointsXXXVII. Another question to be addressed in the physiology of the cerebral hemispheresXXXVIII. The latest advances in the objective study of the higher nervous activity of animalsAdded to Pavlov 1925 edition (chapter XXXIX)XXXIX. Relations between excitation and inhibition, delimitation of excitation and inhibition, and experimental neuroses in dogsAdded to Pavlov 1928 edition (chapters XL-XLII)XL. Healthy and pathological states of the cerebral hemispheresXLI. The inhibitory type of the dog's nervous systemXLII. Influence of interruptions in the experiments with conditional reflexes in dogsAdded to Pavlov 1932 edition (chapters XLIII-LI)XLIII. A physiological theory of the types of nervous system, a.k.a. temperamentsXLIV. Some problems in the physiology of the cerebral hemispheresXLV. A brief sketch of the higher nervous activityXLVI. A trial excursion of a physiologist into the field of psychiatryXLVII. On the physiology of the hypnotic state in the dogXLVIII. On neuroses in humans and animalsXLIX. On the possibility of merging the subjective and the objectiveL. The reply of a physiologist to psychologistLI. Experimental neurosesAdded to Pavlov 1938 edition (chapters LII-LXIII)LII. An attempt to interpret the symptomatology of hysteria physiologicallyLIII. Physiology of the higher nervous activityLIV. A case of an experimental neurosis and its treatment in the weak type of nervous systemLV. Dynamic stereotypy of the higher part of the brainLVI. Feelings of possession (les sentiments d'emprise) and the ultra-paradoxical phaseLVII. An attempt at a physiological interpretation of obsessive neurosis and paranoiaLVIII. Shared types of animal and human higher nervous activityLIX. Experimental pathology of the higher nervous activityLX. Physiological mechanism of the so-called voluntary movementsLXI. The conditional reflexLXII. Types of higher nervous activity in relation to neuroses and psychoses, and the physiological mechanism of neurotic and psychotic symptomsLXIII. On the establishment of a new department at the Leningrad Postgraduate Medical InstituteAdded posthumously in the 1951 editionA. The physiology and pathology of the higher nervous activityB. The problem of sleepC. New research on conditional reflexesGlossary of Pavlovian terms and/or Pavlovian definitionsList of Printed Works by the Author's ColleaguesAdditional SourcesAnnotated Name Index
