The Efference Copy Signal as a Key Mechanism for Consciousness.
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2021 Giorgio Vallortigara 34 citations
Animals need to distinguish sensory input caused by their own movement from sensory input which is due to stimuli in the outside world. This can be done by an efference copy mechanism, a carbon copy of the movement-command that is routed to sensory structures. Here I tried to link the mechanism of the efference copy with the idea of the philosopher Thomas Reid that the senses would have a...