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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: © 1959 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: © 2005 Thompson. 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: © 1995 Thompson. 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: © 2006 Noë. 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: © 2001 Gallese & Keysers. 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: © 2004 Matinez-Conde, Macknik, Hubel. This is a link to the publications page for David Hubel. After clicking on the link, scroll down to ‘2004’ and select the article)
Ulanovsky, N. & Moss, C.F. (2008) 'What the Bat's Voice Tells the Bat's Brain', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (25) June 24: 8491-8498. Published online before print June 18, 2008, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703550105. http://www.pnas.org/content/105/25/8491.full.
Licence: © 2008 PNAS USA. This is an external link to a free access, full text version of this article.
Pineda, J.A. (2008) 'Sensorimotor Cortex as a Critical Component of an 'Extended' Mirror Neuron System: Does it Solve the Development, Correspondence, and Control Problems in Mirroring?' Behavioral and Brain Functions 4 (47). http://www.behavioralandbrainfunctions.com/content/pdf/1744-9081-4-47.pdf
Licence: © 2008 Pineda. This article is distributed under conditions of open access.
Catmur, C. (2011) 'Contingency is Crucial for Creating Imitative Responses', Frontiers in Neuroscience, 5. http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00015/full
Licence: © 2011 Catmur. This article is distributed under conditions of open access.
Battaglia, F., Lisanby, S.H., & Freedberg, D. (2011) ‘Corticomotor Excitability During Observation and Imagination of a Work of Art]’, Frontiers in Neuroscience 5. http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00015/full
Licence: © 2011 Battaglia et al. This article is distributed under conditions of open access.
Rucci, M. & Desbordes, G. (2003) ‘Contributions of Fixational Eye Movements to the Discrimination of Briefly Presented Stimuli’, Journal of Vision 3 (11). http://www.journalofvision.org/content/3/11/18.full
Licence: © 2003 Rucci & Desbordes. This is a free access article.
Forsythe, W. & Noë, A. (2009), 'LIVE at the New York Public Library', October 9. http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/william-forsythe-alva-noë
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
Link to Stephen Macknick’s freely accessible website. http://macknik.neuralcorrelate.com/node/6 Visual Illusions. 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.
Link to Garrison Institute Interview with Evan Thompson, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmwm8tFnmNk ( 2011). This is a freely accessible interview on YouTube with Evan Thompson on the ocntribution of phenomenologies of experience to the neuroscience of perception.
Link to Neuroculture.org, a freely accessible website that provides examples of artists and scholars working at the 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.