How Actions Alter Sensory Processing

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 1164; no. 1; pp. 29 - 36
• Main Authors: Cullen, Kathleen E., Brooks, Jessica X., Sadeghi, Soroush G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.05.2009
• Subjects: efference copy; gaze shift; head-unrestrained; Macaca mulatta; reafference; self-motion; vestibular nucleus; vestibular reflexes

Our vestibular organs are simultaneously activated by our own actions as well as by stimulation from the external world. The ability to distinguish sensory inputs that are a consequence of our own actions (vestibular reafference) from those that result from changes in the external world (vestibular...