Nicholas Humphrey - Journal Articles

Journal Articles

• ‘’Vision in monkeys after removal of the striate cortex’‘. Nature,215, 515-597, 1967.
• ‘‘Contrast illusions in perspective. Nature, 232, 91- 93, 1971.
• ‘’Interest and pleasure: two determinants of a monkey’s visual preferences’‘ Perception, 1, 395-416, 1972.
• ‘’Status and the left cheek’‘. New Scientist, 59, 437-49, 1973.
• ‘’The illusion of beauty’‘. Perceptio, 2, 429-39, 1973.
• ‘‘Status and the left cheek’‘. New Scientist, 59, 437-439. 1973.
• ‘‘The apparent heaviness of colours’‘. Nature, 250, 164-165, 1974. (With E.Pinkerton).
• ’‘The reaction of monkeys to fearsom pictures’‘. Nature, 251, 500-2, 1974.
• ‘’Vision in a monkey without striate cortex: a case study’‘. Perecption, 3,241-55, 1974.
• ‘’Species and individuals in the perceptual world of monkeys’‘. Perception, 3, 105-14, 1974.
• ‘‘Interactive effects of unpleasant light and unpleasant sound’‘. Nature, 253, 346-347, 1975. (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.
• ‘’How monkeys acquire a new way of seeing’‘. Perception, 5, 51-56, 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.
• ‘‘Unfoldings of mental life’’, Science, 196, 755-756, 1977.
• ‘’Do monkeys subjective clocks run faster in red light than in blue’‘. Perception, 6, 7-14.
• ‘‘Effects of red light and loud noise on the rate at which monkeys sample the sensory environment’’. Perception 7:343-348 1978.
• ‘‘The biological basis of collecting’’. Human Nature 44-47 1979.
• ‘’Natural aesthetics’‘. In Architecture for People, ed. B.Mikellides, pp. 59-73, Studio-Vista, London, 1980.
• ‘‘Nature's Psychologists’’. ; In Josephson, B. D. and Ramachandran, V. S., Eds. Consciousness and the Physical World, chapter 4, 57-80. Oxford: Pergamon Press 1980.
• ‘‘Four Minutes to Midnight’’. The BBC Bronowski Lecture, 1981.
• ‘‘Consciousness: a Just-So story’’, New Scientist, 95 473-477, 1982.
• ‘‘The Uses of Consciousness’’. Fifteenth James Arthur Memorial Lecture, 1-25, American Museum of Natural History, New York ASIN B000717RTY1987.
• ‘’Speaking for our selves: an assessment of multiple personality disorder’‘. Raritan, 9, 68-98.
• ‘‘Varieties of altruism - and the common ground between them’’. Social Research 64:199-209, 1997.
• ‘‘What shall we tell the children?’’ In Williams, Wes, Ed. The Values of Science (The 1997 Oxford Amnesty Lectures)’’, 58-79. Westview Press, 1998.
• ‘‘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 power of prayer’‘. Skeptical Inquirer, 24 (3), 61, 2000.
• ‘‘The Privatization of Sensation’’, In Heyes, Celia and Huber, Ludwig, Eds. The Evolution of Cognition, 241-252. MIT, Cambridge, Ma, 2000.
• ‘‘How to solve the mind-body problem’’. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7(4):5-20 2000.
• ‘‘In Reply (Reply to Commentaries on ;How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem)’’. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7(4):98-112, 2000.
• ‘‘One Self: a Meditation on the Unity of Consciousness’’. Social Research 67(4):32-39 2000.
• ‘’Dreaming as play’‘. Behavioral and Brain Science, 23, 953, 2000.
• ‘‘Follow My Leader In Humphrey, Nicholas The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Evolution and Psychology, chapter24, 330-339. Oxford University Press, 2002.
• ‘‘The Deformed Transformed’’, In Humphrey, Nicholas The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution ,chapter 14, 165-199. Oxford University Press 2002.
• ‘‘Great Expectations: The Evolutionary Psychology of Faith-Healing and the Placebo Effect, The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution ,chapter 19, 255-85, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• ‘‘Bugs and Beasts before the Law’’ The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution ,chapter 18, 235-254, Oxford University Press 2002.
• ‘‘Behold the Man’’, In Humphrey, Nicholas The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution ,chapter 16, 206-231, Oxford University Press, 2002.
• ‘‘Shamanism and cognitive evolution (Commentary on Michael Winkelman)’’. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 12, 91-3, 2002
• ‘‘A Family Affair’’, In Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist, ed. John Brockman, p.3-12, New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.
• ‘‘The Placebo Effect’’, In Gregory, Richard L., Ed. Oxford Companion to the Mind. Second Edition . Oxford University Press, 2004.
• ‘‘Thinking about Feeling’’, In Gregory, Richard L., Ed. Oxford Companion to the Mind. Second Edition . Oxford University Press, 2004.
• ‘‘Do babies know what they look like? Doppelgängers and the phenomenology of infancy’‘. In Susan Hurley and Nick Chater (Eds.), Perspectives on Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience to Social Science. Cambridge: MIT Press. (2005)
• ‘’Human handwalkers: five siblings who never stood up’‘. CPNSS Discussion Paper, DP 77/05, 2005
• ‘‘Killer Instinct: a Review of Niall Ferguson's ;World of War: History's Century of Hatred’’, Prospect, September 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.
• ‘‘The society of selves’’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 362, 745-754, 2007.
• ‘‘Getting the measure of consciousness’’, Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 2008.
• ‘‘Questioning consciousness’’, Seed Magazine, January/February,30-32, 2008.
• ‘’Beauty’s child: sexual selection, nature worship and the love of God’‘.