Abstract:For more than a century, neuroscientists have debated the problem of how selfgenerated voluntary motor actions are executed without interference from sensory information elicited by the movements. In the 1950's, two theories were proposed: the corollary discharge theory by Sperry 1) and the efference copy theory by von Holst and Mittelstaedt 2) . They are essentially identical in proposing the necessity of specific neuronal mechanisms to suppress undesirable percepts or reflexes, both of which might disturb on… Show more
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