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Project Pigeon (later Project Orcon, for "organic control") was an attempt by American behaviorist B.F. Skinner to develop a pigeon-controlled guided bomb. The video demonstrates how, using operant conditioning, the pigeons were trained to peck and the target projected on a small screen in the nose cone. The program was canceled on 8 October 1944 because "further prosecution of this project would seriously delay others which in the minds of the Division have more immediate promise of combat…
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