This page lists the experiments that I find (despite some difficult considerations) had very important results.
- rat dying by using lever to stimulate pleasure centers rather than eating
- see http://www.iplant.eu/references.html
- from thebacckbox in The Runaway Brain: The Evolution of Human Uniqueness, Christopher Wills, Basic Books 1993
- The story of early development of studies on the genetics of learning in rats is in N. K. Innis, Tolman and Tryon: Early research on the inheritance of the ability to learn, american psychologist 47 (1992): 190-97
- Marian C. Diamond, Enriching Heredity: The impact of the environment on the anatomy of the brain (London: Collier, 1988), traces the detailed studies of enriched and deprived rats."
- The evolution of the brain and the role of brain size are summarized in Harry J. Jerison, Evolution of the Brain and Intelligence (New York: Academic Press, 1973); and H. J. Jerison, Brain Size and the Evolution of Mind, James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain (New York)
- T. W. Deacon, Rethinking mammalian brain evolution, American Zoologist 30 (1990): 692 - 705; and A. J. Rockel, R. W. Hiorns, and T. P. S Powell, The basic uniformity in structure of the neocortex, Brain 103 (1980): 221-44, discuss the organisation of the brain at levels higher than the neuron
- 1992 issue of Scientific American (devoted to Mind and Brain)
- Stanford experiment
- to develop
- Milgram experiment
- to develop
- Held and Hein (1958)
- "In a classic experiment by Held and Hein (1958), a group of kittens were reared in total darkness. The kittens were fitted in a gantry arrangement with two baskets. One basket had holes for the legs such that the physical movements of one kitten would drive both animals through roughly similar spatial experiences. In each case, after a few weeks the kitten that walked and could associate visual information with its own physical movement developed effective vision. The rider in the basket remained functionally blind. "
- http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/firstperson/machanimate
- Held and Hein (1963)
- "There is also developmental evidence that normal vision depends not only on movement of the body relative to the environment, but on self-actuated movement. Held and Hein (1963) performed an experiment in which two kittens were harnessed to a carousel. One of the kittens was harnessed in such a way that it stood firmly on the ground. The other kitten was suspended in the air. As the one kitten walked, both kittens moved in a circle. As a result, they received identical visual stimulation, but only one of them received that stimulation as a result of self-movement. Remarkably (but not surprisingly from an enactive viewpoint) only the self-moving kitten developed normal depth perception (not to mention normal paw-eye coordination). From an enactive standpoint, we can venture an explanation for this: only through self-movement can one test and so learn the relevant patterns of sensorimotor dependence. "
- http://www.interdisciplines.org/enaction/papers/1
- Tool-use induces morphological updating of the body schema Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 12, R478-R479, 23 June 2009
- confirming enaction, augmented/extended cognition, embodiment, ...
- also coherent with extended homeostasis (Claud Bernard cycles)
- added to my notes on Supersizing the Mind
- Your Computer Really Is a Part of You by Brandon Keim, Wired.com March 2010
- A Demonstration of the Transition from Ready-to-Hand to Unready-to-Hand by Dobromir G. Dotov, Lin Nie, Anthony Chemero, PLoS ONE March 2010
- Tony Chemero’s Online Papers
- World Simulation Spring 2008
- Class Project at Kansas State University
- dedicated wiki where most of this content was built by students
- mwesch's Channel for Digital Ethnography, Kansas State University
- YT video with European empires appearing, splitting and changing sizes over time
- Stanford children experiments to categorize reward and time
- predict GPA with the ability to postpone the candy
- to develop
