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How We Became Sensorimotor - Movement, Measurement, Sensation (Paperback)
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How We Became Sensorimotor - Movement, Measurement, Sensation (Paperback)
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An engrossing history of the century that transformed our knowledge
of the body's inner senses The years between 1833 and 1945
fundamentally transformed science's understanding of the body's
inner senses, revolutionizing fields like philosophy, the social
sciences, and cognitive science. In How We Became Sensorimotor,
Mark Paterson provides a systematic account of this transformative
period, while also demonstrating its substantial implications for
current explorations into phenomenology, embodied consciousness,
the extended mind, and theories of the sensorimotor, the body, and
embodiment. Each chapter of How We Became Sensorimotor takes a
particular sense and historicizes its formation by means of recent
scientific studies, case studies, or coverage in the media. Ranging
among a diverse array of sensations, including balance, fatigue,
pain, the "muscle sense," and what Maurice Merleau-Ponty termed
"motricity," Paterson's analysis moves outward from the familiar
confines of the laboratory to those of the industrial world and
even to wild animals and their habitats. He uncovers important
stories, such as how forgotten pain-measurement schemes transformed
criminology, or how Penfield's outmoded concepts of the sensory and
motor homunculi of the brain still mar psychology textbooks.
Complete with original archival research featuring illustrations
and correspondence, How We Became Sensorimotor shows how the
shifting and sometimes contested historical background to our
understandings of the senses are being extended even today.
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