Born from a desire to understand why people take and post so many self-portraits online, Lignier designed a modified version of behaviorist B.F. Skinner's conditioning experiments wherein rats ...

He observed the rats push the button every half a minute further along in the experiment. Augustin Lignier used a Skinner’s box, which was developed by a famed psychologist to test animal behavior.

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 artist said he drew inspiration from scientific experiments, developed by Skinner during the 1950s, that trained animals to complete complex tasks. Lignier built this cage-cum-photo-studio for ...

It turns out rats like to take pictures of themselves too. ... Designed by well-known behaviorist B.F. Skinner, the Skinner box rewards rats when they press a lever. In Lignier’s experiment, ...

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 ...