It turns out rats like to take pictures of themselves too. Augustin Lignier, a professional photographer in Paris, recently tested this theory with two pet store rats in a Skinner box.

When two rats began taking their own photos with a camera attached to their cage, artist Augustin Lignier said he felt “super powerful.” As part of his graduate studies in 2021, Lignier bought ...

He took inspiration from B.F. Skinner, the famous behaviorist who had devised a test chamber to study learning in rats. The Skinner box, as it became known, dispensed food pellets when rats pushed ...

He built his own version of a Skinner box, a device designed by behavioural scientist B.F. Skinner to conduct learning experiments on rats. In the original Skinner box experiments, rats would push ...

His famed Skinner box, created in the 1930s, allowed him to study animals in controlled environments. About 20 years after the structure was built, Skinner placed rats inside a chamber equipped ...

Known now as the "Skinner box," this groundbreaking methodology developed in the 1930s has been used repeatedly in the past century not just to study behavior but also as an allegory — and has ...

Skinner used a hungry rat in a Skinner box to show how positive reinforcement works. The box contained a lever on the side, and as the rat moved about the box, it would accidentally knock the lever.

When two rats began taking their own photos with a camera attached to their cage, artist Augustin Lignier said he felt “super powerful.” As part of his graduate studies in 2021, Lignier bought ...

When two rats began taking their own photos with a camera attached to ... Lignier based his cage design on the “Skinner Box,” a device invented by American psychologist B.F. Skinner to study ...

When two rats began taking their own photos with a camera attached to their cage, artist Augustin Lignier said he felt “super powerful.” As part of his graduate studies in 2021, Lignier bought ...