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Lettvin, J. Y., Maturana, H. R., McCulloch, W. S. & Pitts, W. H.(1959) ‘What the Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain’, Proceedings of the IRE 47 (11): 1940–1951. http://jerry.lettvin.com/Jerry/wiki/index.php/Papers.
Licence: © Lettvin et al. 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.

Thompson, E. (2005) ‘Sensorimotor subjectivity and the enactive approach to experience’, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 4 (4):  407–427). http://individual.utoronto.ca/evant/Articles.htm
Licence: © Thompson 2005. 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.

Thompson, E. (1995) ‘Colour Vision, Evolution, and Perceptual Content]’, Synthese 104: 1–32. http://individual.utoronto.ca/evant/Articles.htm
Licence: © Thompson 1995. 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.

Noë, A. (2006) 'Experience without the head’, Perceptual Experience,  (ed) Gendler, T.S., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 411-433. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~noe/an_articles.html
Licence: © Noë 2006. 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.

Gallese, V. & Keysers, C. (2001) ‘Mirror Neurons: A Sensorimotor Representation System]’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5): 983–4. http://www.unipr.it/arpa/mirror/pubs/pdffiles/Gallese/
Licence: © Gallese & Keysers 2001. This is a link to the 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

Martinez-Conde, S., Macknik, S.L. & Hubel, D.H. (2004) ‘The Role of Fixational Eye Movements in Visual Perception’ Nature Neuroscience 5: 229–240. http://hubel.med.harvard.edu/publications.htm
Licence: © Matinez-Conde, Macknik, Hubel 2004. This is a link to the publications page for David Hubel. After clicking on the link, scroll down to ‘2004’ and select the article)

‘[What the bat's voice tells the bat's brain]’, Nachum Ulanovsky and Cynthia F. Moss. (2007). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. http://www.pnas.org/content/105/25/8491.full.
This is an external link to a free access, full text version of this article.


'Sensorimotor cortex as a critical component of an 'extended' mirror neuron system: Does it solve the development, correspondence, and control problems in mirroring?' Jaime A Pineda. (2008). Behavioral and Brain Functions, 4:47. This article is open access and can be accessed in full in this collection by clicking on this link.


'Contingency is crucial for creating imitative responses', C. Catmur. (2011). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 5. This article is open access and can be accessed in full in this collection by clicking on this link.


Corticomotor excitability during observation and imagination of a work of art’, Fortunato Battaglia, Sarah H. Lisanby and David Freedberg. (2011). Frontiers in Neuroscience, 5. This article is open access and can be accessed in full in this collection by clicking on this link.

Contributions of fixational eye movements to the discrimination of briefly presented stimuli’, Michele Rucci and Gaëlle Desbordes. (2003). Journal of Vision,3,11. This is a free access article and can be freely read online by clicking on this link.


William Forsythe & Alva Noë’. (2009), LIVE at the New York Public Library, October 9. This is a link to a free access video of a conversation between  Alva Noe and William Forsyth on perception as something we do; that is, enactive perception not something that is simply inside our heads


Visual Illusions is part of Stephen Macknick’s freely accessible website. Macknick is a neuroscientist who has worked on relations betwen the brain, vision and magic/illusion. The site allows you to interact with visual illusions.


Garrison Institute Interview with Evan Thompson ( 2011). This is a freely accessible interview on YouTube with Evan Thompson on the ocntribution of phenomenologies of experience to the neuroscience of perception.


Neuroculture.org is a freely accessible website that provides examples of artists and scholars working at teh inetrsection of art and neuroscience. Many of these works are critical of the hype surrounding neuroscience, others actively explore the relations between neuroscience, art and peception.