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Action initiation involves systematic misrepresentation whereby proprioceptive evidence that the body is not moving is attenuated to allow the system to bring about the desired movement.
“Action initiation involves ‘systematic misrepresentation’ (Wiese 2017)—whereby proprioceptive evidence that, for instance, my arm is not moving, is attenuated to allow the system to bring about the desired movement (Adams et al. 2013; Brown et al. 2013).”
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“Action initiation involves ‘systematicmisrepresentation’ (Wiese 2017)—whereby proprioceptive evidence that, for instance, my arm is not moving, is attenuated to allow the system to bring about the desired movement (Adams et al. 2013; Brown et al. 2013).”
Background
- Authors
- Wiese, W.
- Affiliations
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Wiese, Wanja
- ORCID
- Wiese, Wanja
- Venue
- Erkenntnis
- Published
- 2016-12-20
- Volume
- 82
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1233-1252
- ISSN
- 0165-0106 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8420
- OpenAlex
- W2563109517
- Cited by
- 60
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 4.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Erkenntnis (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- active inference, predictive processing, action representation, ideomotor theory, top-down modulation, sensory prediction error, sensory attenuation, proprioception, force matching, misrepresentation, inference to the best explanation
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