Psychologist B.F. Skinner taught these pigeons to play ping-pong in 1950. ... During World War II, the military invested Skinner’s project to train pigeons to guide missiles through the skies.

B.F. Skinner’s Pigeon-Guided Rocket On this date 21 years ago, noted psychologist and inventor B.F. Skinner died; the American History Museum is home to one of his more unusual inventions ...

But Project Pigeon still had some surprises to deliver. Skinner kept the 64 pigeons and some of his test apparatus, which he used to test the birds over the next few years.

Sadly, pigeon-guided missiles never had a chance to be one of them. That wouldn’t have been the case if B.F. Skinner had his way. In World War II, the American inventor hatched a plan for the ...

If all three pigeons pecked, the weapon would be released. This prototype was never developed, but influenced later work on animal training. For a discussion of the instrument, see James Capshew, ...

One of the craziest plans for pigeons illustrates their unique abilities best: Project Pigeon, the idea to use pigeons to guide missiles. Behaviorist B. F. Skinner was intrigued by the ...

Pecking Pigeons. Imagine the pigeons at some average part of their day--pecking, scratching, looking for food. Every now and again, boom! A tasty pigeon snack appears. Hey, the pigeon thinks, that ...

B F Skinner and Superstition in the Pigeon. Health Check. Claudia Hammond explores the research and life of one of the 20th century’s most famous and controversial psychologists – B F Skinner.

Claudia Hammond explores the legacy of BF Skinner and behaviourism. One of the most famous psychologists of the 20th century, he remains one of the most controversial. Show more Claudia Hammond ...

B.F. Skinner is a psychologist best known for the Skinner Box, a kind of sensory-deprivation device which limits the creature inside it to only one form ...