| Description |
1 online resource ([vi], 294 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction : from nineteenth-century physiology to twenty-first-century neuroprosthesis -- The "muscle sense" and the motor cortex : a cartography of bodily interiority -- Pain as a distinct sensation : from psychophysics to affective-motivational pathways -- The oculomotor : labyrinths, vestibules, and chambers -- "The neuro-motor unconscious" : Étienne-Jules Marey, Eadweard Muybridge, and motion capture -- Fatigue : Jules Amar, Angelo Mosso, and physiological observations of industrial labor, 1891-1947 -- Motricity : Merleau-Ponty, "motor habit," and the neurology of "abstract" and "concrete" movement |
| Summary |
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. This volume 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 this book 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes chapter notes (pages 267-268), bibliographical references (pages 269-285), and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed June 27, 2022) |
| Subject |
Senses and sensation -- History -- 19th century
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Senses and sensation -- History -- 20th century
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Sensorimotor integration.
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Senses and sensation
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Sensorimotor integration
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1452964378 |
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9781452964379 |
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