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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). 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.
'Neural correlates of admiration and compassion’, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Andrea McColl, Hanna Damasio, and Antonio Damasio, 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U S A. May 12, 106,19: 8021–8026.
Experience without the head’, Alva Noë (originally published in Perceptual Experience, 2006. 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.