SMT Roadmap and Complete Bibliography
Here is a historical overview of developments of the sensorimotor theory from its very beginnings in 1996, with indication of some of the critical ideas and associated papers. The links to the cited papers as well as others can be found in the bibliography in the second part of the page.
The original “real mysteries of vision” paper
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O’Regan (1996): Solving the “real mysteries” of visual perception
- “the world as an outside memory”
- against internal representations
- role of action in perception (MacKay’s “sensorimotor contingencies”)
The first key paper on SMT
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O’Regan & Noë 2001, BBS: Sensorimotor theory of vision and visual consciousness
- exercising mastery of sensorimotor contingencies; sensation vs perception
- awareness (cognitive access)
- vividness (presence) through grabbiness (alerting capacity)
- purports to bridge the explanatory gap
Noë’s work
- action, environment, biology: Action in Perception (Noë, 2004)
- “grand illusion”: Noë & O’Regan (2000)
- role of the brain: Hurley & Noë (2003); Out of Our Heads (Noë, 2009)
My first philosophical refinements
- relation to “skill” theories (Myin & O’Regan, 2002)
- bodiliness (corporality), grabbiness (alerting capacity), insubordinateness (O’Regan, Myin, Noë, 2004; 2005)
- phenomenality plot, analytic phenomenology
- what people say about qualia: O’Regan (2010)
- robot consciousness: O’Regan (2007; 2010; 2012)
- smell: Cooke & Myin (2011)
My book, further refinements
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O’Regan 2011: Why red doesnt sound like a bell: Phenomenal Consciousness (“Feel”)
- consciousness in general — purports to solve hard problem
- 2 levels of “cognitive access”
- “self”
2013-2019: ERC “FEEL” project
- explanatory status, radical enactivism, continuum of cognitive access: O’Regan (2014)
- absolute and relative explanatory gap; mental manipulation; access through self: O’Regan (2016)- synesthesia: O’Regan & Degenaar (2014); Silverman (2018 JCS)
- sensorimotor, autopoietic, radical enactivism: Degenaar & O’Regan (2017); Villalobos & Silverman (2018);
- enactivism & imagery: Foglia & O’Regan (2014)
- predictive processing: O’Regan & Degenaar (2014)
- psychopathology: Myin, O’Regan, Myin-Germeys (2015)
- representations, content, explanatory gap, hard problem: Silverman (2016 PQ; CF; 2017 JCS; 2017 PCS)
Empirical applications of SMT
- space (Philipona; Laflaquière; Terekhov)
- neural nets, camera calibration (Terekhov; Montone)
- color (Philipona; Witzel; Vazquez-Corral)
- Rubber hand illusion, pain (Valenzuela-Moguillansky)
- sensory substitution (NaviEar -Witzel, FeelSpace – Schumann, FeelSpeech – Rizza, Terekhov)
- babies (Fagard, Rat-Fischer, Somogyi, Esseily, Jacquey, Popescu…)
Complete Bibliography of SMT
(My own and my collaborators’ published articles relevant to SMT)