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2022
Seeing and Somethingness. Aeon Essays 3rd October 2022.
2020
Consciousness: knowing the unknowable. Social Research, 87 (1), pp. 157-70, 2020.
2019
Easy does it: a soft landing for consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 26 (9-10), pp.:105-114, 2019.
2018
Shamans as healers: when magical structure becomes practical function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 41, p. 27, 2018.
The lure of death: suicide and human evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 373: 20170269.
2017
Humans Are the Only Animals Who Crave Oblivion Through Suicide. Aeon. 28 July 2017.
The Invention of Consciousness. Topoi, 39(1), 13-21.
2016
Dissociation of the Reach and the Grasp in the Destriate (V1) Monkey Helen: A New Anatomy for the Dual Visuomotor Channel Theory of Reaching. Experimental Brain Research, 234(8), 2351-2362. 2016. [with Ian Q. Whishaw and Jenni M. Karl].
A Riddle Written on the Brain. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23, pp. 278-87, 2016
Redder than Red: Illusionism or Phenomenal Surrealism? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 23, 116-123, 2016
2015
Consciousness Spirited Away. Interalia Magazine, April 2015
Consciousness as Art. Scientific American Mind, May/June 2015, pp. 65-69
The bigger an animal’s brain the greater its intelligence. In "This Idea Must Die", ed. John Brockman, pp. 29-31, HarperCollins, 2015.
2013
Placebos at large. New Scientist, 6 August 2013
2012
'This chimp will kick you ass at memory games, but how the hell does he do it?' Trends in Cognitive Science, 16, pp.353- 355, 2012
The evolved self-management system. EDGE. 2012.
The evolutionary psychology of healing: a human success story. Current Biology, Sept 10, vol 22. no. 17, 2012 (with John Skoyles).
2011
Introduction to Descartes Meditations and Other Writings. Folio Society, London, 2011
It takes a thief to catch a thief. Behav. Brain Sc 34.1. p. 28, 2011
Ideology, fear of death and death anxiety. Political Psychology, 32, p 601-621, 2011. (With Emanuele Castano et al).
2010
The nature of beauty. Prospect, September, p. 62-65, 2010
Person as moral scientist. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 33.4, p. 340, 2010
2009
Ca8 Mutations Cause a Novel Syndrome Characterized by Ataxia and Mild Mental Retardation with Predisposition to Quadrupedal Gait. PLOS Genetics May 2009. (With Seval Türkmen et al.)
2008
Getting the measure of consciousness. In What is Life? The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream. Ed. M. Murase and I. Tsuda, Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, no. 173 pp. 264-269, 2008
Cerebellar hypoplasia, with quadrupedal locomotion, caused by mutations in the very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDLR) gene. European Journal of Human Genetics 16, 1070-74, 2008 (with Seval Türkmen, et al.)
Genes and quadrupedal locomotion in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(21):E26, May 2008. (with Stefan Mundlos, and Seval Turkmen.)
2007
The society of selves. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 362, 745-754, 2007
2006
Consciousness: the Achilles Heel of Darwinism? Thank God, Not Quite. In Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement, ed. John Brockman, pp. 50-64, New York: Vintage, 2006
Science looks at fairness. Social Research, 73, 345-7, 2006
2005
Do babies know what they look like? Doppelgängers and the phenomenology of infancy. In Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science. Vol. 2., ed. Susan Hurley and Nick Chater, pp. 178-80, Cambridge Ma.: MIT Press, 2005
Human Hand-Walkers: Five Siblings Who Never Stood Up. CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 77/05, 2005 (with John R Skoyles and Roger Keynes)
2004
Thinking about feeling. Guest essay in Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. R.L.Gregory , p. 213-4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
The placebo effect. In Oxford Companion to the Mind, ed. R.L.Gregory, p. 735-6, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2004.
A family affair. In Curious Minds: How a child becomes a scientist, ed. John Brockman, p.3-12, New York: Pantheon Books, 2004
2002
Great expectations: the evolutionary psychology of faith-healing and the placebo effect. In Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium, Vol. 2: Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives, ed. Claes von Hofsten & Lars Bäckman, pp. 225-46, Hove: Psychology Press, 2002.
Shamanism and cognitive evolution [Commentary on Michael Winkelman]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 12, 91-3, 2002.
2001
The Deformed Transformed. CPNSS Monograph, DP 55/01, 2001
Doing it my way: sensation, perception – and feeling red. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 24, 987, 2001
2000
The power of prayer. Skeptical Inquirer, 24, 61, 2000.
How to solve the mind-body problem. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, 5-20, 2000.
One-self: a meditation on the unity of consciousness. Social Research, 67, no. 4, 32-39, 2000.
Dreaming as play. Behavioral & Brain Sciences , 23, 953, 2000.
1999
Cave art, autism and the evolution of the human mind. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 8, 165-191, 1998.
Why grandmothers may need large brains. Psycoloquy, 10 (024), 1999.
The privatization of sensation. In The Evolution of Cognition, ed. L. Huber and C. Heyes, pp. 241-252, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
1998
Left-footedness in peacocks: an emperor’s tale. Laterality, 3, 289, 1998.
What shall we tell the children? Oxford Amnesty Lecture. Social Research, 65, 777-805, 1998.
1997
Kinds of Minds. Journal of Philosophy, 94, 97-103, 1997.
Varieties of altruism - and the common ground between them. Social Research, 64, 199-209, 1997.
1995
Blocking out the distinction between sensation and perception: superblindsight and the case of Helen. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18, 257-8, 1995.
1990
Speaking for our selves: an assessment of multiple personality disorder. Raritan, 9:1, 68-98, 1989. (With Daniel C. Dennett).
1988
Lies, damned lies and anecdotal evidence. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 11, 257-258, 1988.
1987
Arms and the man. New Blackfriar's Journal, 68, 35-40, 1987.
The uses of consciousness. (James Arthur Memorial Lecture). American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1987.
Bugs and Beasts before the Law. Foreword to The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, by E.P.Evans, pp xiii - xxxi. Faber &Faber, London, 1987.
1983
The adaptiveness of mentalism. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 6, 366, 1983.
1982
Consciousness: A just-so story. New Scientist, 95, 473-477, 1982.
1981
Having feelings and showing feelings. In Self- awareness in Domesticated Animals, ed. D.G.M. Wood-Gush, M.Dawkins, R.Ewbank, pp. 37-38, 1981.
Four Minutes to Midnight. The BBC Bronowski Memorial Lecture, BBC Publications, 1981
1980
Natural aesthetics. In Architecture for People, ed. B.Mikellides, pp. 59-73, Studio-Vista, London, 1980.
Nature's psychologists. In Consciousness and the Physical World, ed. B.Josephson and V.Ramachandran, pp. 57-75, Pergamon, Oxford, 1980.
1978
Nature's psychologists. New Scientist, 900-904, 29 June 1978.
Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample their sensory environment. Perception, 7, 343-348, 1978. (With G. R. Keeble).
1977
Do monkeys' subjective clocks run faster in red light than in blue? Perception, 6, 7-14, 1977. (With G. R. Keeble).
Unfoldings of mental life. Science, 196, 755-756, 1977.
1976
How monkeys acquire a new way of seeing. Perception, 5, 51-56, 1976. (With G. R. Keeble).
The colour currency of nature. In Colour for Architecture, ed. T.Porter and B.Mikellides, pp. 95-98, Studio-Vista, London, 1976.
The social function of intellect.In Growing Points in Ethology, ed. P. P. G. Bateson and R. A. Hinde, pp. 303- 317, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1976.
1975
Interactive effects of unpleasant light and unpleasant sound.Nature, 253, 346-347, 1975. (With G. R. Keeble).
1974
Species and individuals in the perceptual world of monkeys. Perception, 3, 105-114, 1974.
Lasting effects of early blindness: a case study. Quarterly Journal Experimental Psychology, 26, 114-124, 1974. (With C. Ackroyd and E. K. Warrington).
The apparent heaviness of colours. Nature, 250, 164-165, 1974. (With E. Pinkerton).
The reactions of monkeys to 'fearsome' pictures. Nature, 250, 164-165, 1974. (With E. Pinkerton).
Vision in a monkey without striate cortex: a case study. Perception, 3, 241-255, 1974.
1973
Turning the left cheek. Nature, 243, 271-272, 1973. (With I. C. McManus).
Asymmetry in gorilla skulls: evidence of lateralised brain function? Nature, 244, 53-54, 1973. (With C. P. Groves).
Status and the left cheek. New Scientist, 59, 437- 439. 1973. (With I. C. McManus).
The illusion of beauty. Perception, 2, 429-439, 1973.
1972
Seeing and nothingness. New Scientist, 53, 682-684, 1972.
Interest and pleasure: two determinants of a monkey's visual preferences. Perception, 1, 395-416, 1972.
1971
Colour and brightness preferences in monkeys. Nature, 229, 615-617, 1971.
Contrast illusions in perspective. Nature, 232, 91- 93, 1971.
Ventral temporal lobe lesions and oddity performance in monkeys. Brain Research, 30, 253-263, 1971. (With S. D. Iversen).
1970
What the frog's eye tells the monkey's brain. Brain, Behaviour, Evolution, 3, 324-337, 1970.
1969
Size constancy in monkeys with inferotemporal lesions. Quarterly Journal Experimental Psychology, 21, 225-238, 1969. (With L.Weiskrantz).
Varieties of colour anomia. Brain, 92, 847-860, 1969. (With J. M. and S. M. Oxbury).
1968
Responses to visual stimuli of single units in the superior colliculus of rats and monkeys. Experimental Neurology, 20, 312-340, 1968.
1967
Vision in monkeys after removal of the striate cortex. Nature, 215, 595-597, 1967. (With L.Weiskrantz).
1965
Constancy and the geometric illusions. Nature, 206, 744-745, 1965. (With M.J.Morgan).