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.

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 ...

It’s a standing joke among scientists that most headlines about health breakthroughs should be suffixed with the words “in mice”: “Vitamin D regulates cancer immunity”? Sure – in mice.

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 ...

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 ...

The Skinner box, as it became known, dispensed food pellets when rats pushed a designated lever. It became one of the most well-known experimental paradigms in psychology.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

French artist Augustin Linier placed two male rats he bought at a pet store in a Skinner box designed by behavioral scientist B.F. Skinner to conduct learning experiments on rats.

B.F. Skinner, The Shaping of a Behaviorist, 1979, p. 167, 361. Location Currently not on view Credit Line Gift of Fred S. Keller ID Number 1985.0075.01 accession number 1985.0075 catalog number ...

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 ...