efference

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• When you make a movement, your brain sends an efference signal to inform your muscles how to react.

• A motor-related brain area could send an efference copy of the motor command to the visual cortex in motor coordinates, and the connectivity between axons from the motor-related area and visual neurons could act as the forward model, transforming the signal to visual coordinates.

  Academic text (2017)

• There are many different uses that might be made of this efference copy, depending on the type of motor instruction in question.

  Academic text (1999)

• So again, the content of the efference copy does not seem to be consciously available.

  Academic text (1999)

• "Emotion and Facial Efference: An Ignored Theory

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• The intentions are assumed to be reflected as efference copies to the representing system.

  Academic text (1999)

• Here the efference copy is being monitored by a proto self, the new subject of sensation.

• Zajonc, R. B., S. T. Murphy, & M. Inglehart, "Feeling and Facial Efference: Implications of the Vascular Theory of Emotion"

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• Feinberg, Irwin. 1978. "Efference Copy and Corollary Discharge: Implications for Thinking and its Disorders." Schizophrenia Bulletin, 4: 636-640.

  Academic text (1999)

• Nonetheless, it is consistent with this to suppose that whether or not a perceived movement is experienced as one's own depends on whether or not there is a match at the comparator between the sensory perception of the movement and an efference copy (Jeannerod in press; cf. Daprati et al. 1997).

  Academic text (1999)

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