Psychologists Epstein and Skinner in a classic classroom film originally released in 1982 and dubbed “best film of the year”
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by the American Psychological Association. In sometimes stunning footage, the film shows that pigeons, with the right training, can behave in ways that appear to demonstrate advanced human phenomena: self-awareness, insight, problem solving, imitation, symbolic communication, and even the use of a memorandum.