Parallel processing streams for motor output and sensory prediction during action preparation

• Published in: Journal of neurophysiology Vol. 113; no. 6; pp. 1752 - 1762
• Main Authors: Stenner, Max-Philipp, Bauer, Markus, Heinze, Hans-Jochen, Haggard, Patrick, Dolan, Raymond J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Physiological Society 15.03.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Anticipation, Psychological; Female; Functional Laterality; Hand - physiology; Humans; Male; Movement; Psychomotor Performance; Sensorimotor Cortex - physiology; Sensory Processing; sensory prediction; agency; motor priming; sensory attenuation; lateralized readiness potential

Sensory consequences of one's own actions are perceived as less intense than identical, externally generated stimuli. This is generally taken as evidence for sensory prediction of action consequences. Accordingly, recent theoretical models explain this attenuation by an anticipatory modulation...