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Nervous perception: germinal articles in neuroscience on sensorimotor experience
‘What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain’, J. Y. Lettvin, H. R. Maturana, W. S. McCulloch, and W. H. Pitts (originally published 1959, Proceedings of the IRE, 47, 11: 1940–1951. This is a link to the article on the ‘Papers’ page of Jerry Lettvin’s wiki (now maintained by his son, the neuroscientist Jonathan Lettvin. Permission to link externally to this article was given by Jonathon Lettvin). Once you have clicked on the link, you need to scroll down to ‘22’ to download the pdf.
‘Sensorimotor subjectivity and the enactive approach to experience’, Evan Thompson (originally published 2005, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 4, 4: 407–427). This is a link to the author’s copy on his website, on the page ‘Selected Articles’. After clicking the link, scroll down to the heading ‘2006’ and select the pdf for download.
‘Colour vision, evolution, and perceptual content’, Evan Thompson (originally published 1995, Synthese, 104: 1–32). This is a link to the author’s pdf version of the article on his website, on the page ‘Selected Articles’. After clicking the link, scroll down to the heading ‘1995’ and select the pdf for download.
'Experience without the head’, Alva Noë (originally published 2006, Perceptual Experience, Tamar Szabo Gendler ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 411–433). This is a link to the author’s draft of the article on the ‘Articles’ page of the author’s website. After clicking in the link, scroll to the article title to download a pdf.
‘Mirror neurons: A sensorimotor representation system’, Vittorio Gallese and Christian Keysers (originally published 2001, Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 24, 5: 983–4). This is a link to this article, stored on a directory of the University of Parma, Italy. After clicking on the link below, scroll down to the active link ‘Gallese-Keysers 2001.pdf
‘The role of fixational eye movements in visual perception’ Susan Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik and David H. Hubel ( originally published 2004, Nature Neuroscience, 5: 229–240), This is a publications page for David Hubel. After clicking on the link, scroll down to ‘2004’ and select the article)