ReviewJournal of neurophysiology2016
Active sensing without efference copy: referent control of perception.
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- How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Force drifts and matching errors in the lower extremities: implications for the control and perception of foot force.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control.Biological psychology · 2022Article
- One more time about motor (and non-motor) synergies.Experimental brain research · 2021Review
- The speed of adaptation is dependent on the load type during target reaching by intact human subjects.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Seeing motion of controlled object improves grip timing in adults with autism spectrum condition: evidence for use of inverse dynamics in motor control.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Efference copy in kinesthetic perception: a copy of what is it?Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Review
- Embodied skillful performance: where the action is.Synthese · 2021Article
- Production and Perception of Intentional and Unintentional Actions.Journal of human kinetics · 2021Article
- Stability of Action and Kinesthetic Perception in Parkinson's Disease.Journal of human kinetics · 2021Article
- Understanding and Synergy: A Single Concept at Different Levels of Analysis?Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Review
- What do people match when they try to match force? Analysis at the level of hypothetical control variables.Experimental brain research · 2020Article
- Eye and head movements and vestibulo-ocular reflex in the context of indirect, referent control of motor actions.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Review
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- Referent control of anticipatory grip force during reaching in stroke: an experimental and modeling study.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- Indirect, referent control of motor actions underlies directional tuning of neurons.Journal of neurophysiology · 2019Review
- Force dynamics and synergist muscle activation in stick insects: the effects of using joint torques as mechanical stimuli.Journal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Although action and perception are different behaviors, they are likely to be interrelated, as implied by the notions of perception-action coupling and active sensing. Traditionally, it has been assumed that the nervous system directly preprograms motor commands required for actions and uses a copy of them called efference copy (EC) to also influence our senses. This review offers a critical analysis of the EC concept by identifying its limitations. An alternative to the EC concept is based on the experimentally confirmed notion that sensory signals from receptors are perceived relative to referent signals specified by the brain. These referents also underlie the control of motor actions by predetermining where, in the spatial domain, muscles can work without preprogramming how they should work in terms of motor commands or EC. This approach helps solve several problems of action and explain several sensory experiences, including position sense and the sense that the world remains stationary despite changes in its retinal image during eye or body motion (visual space constancy). The phantom limb phenomenon and other kinesthetic illusions are also explained within this framework.
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