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Corollary discharge circuits in the primate brain

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Crapse, Trinity B, Sommer, Marc A·2008·Current Opinion in Neurobiology
DOI 10.1016/j.conb.2008.09.017PMC PMC2702467
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Movements are necessary to engage the world, but every movement results in sensorimotor ambiguity. Self-movements cause changes to sensory inflow as well as changes in the positions of objects relative to motor effectors (eyes and limbs). Hence the brain needs to monitor self-movements, and one way this is accomplished is by routing copies of movement commands to appropriate structures. These signals, known as corollary discharge (CD), enable compensation for sensory consequences of movement and preemptive updating of spatial representations. Such operations occur with a speed and accuracy that implies a reliance on prediction. Here we review recent CD studies and find that they arrive at a shared conclusion: CD contributes to prediction for the sake of sensorimotor harmony.

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  • The mechanistic basis of N1-suppression to overt speech involves an efference-copy mediated IFM.

    “There is strong evidence that the mechanistic basis of N1-suppression to overt speech involves an efference-copy mediated IFM (Eliades and Wang, 2003; Crapse and Sommer, 2008; Rauschecker and Scott, 2009).”

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    The “CD and human behavior” section links corollary-discharge mechanisms in speech production to dampening of the human auditory N100 during self-vocalization. The “CD and mechanism” section describes suppression when vocal feedback matches predictions, but its evidence concerns marmoset neurons. The paper describes a forward model explicitly for eye movements, not as an established mechanistic basis for speech-related N1 suppression. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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Authors
Crapse, T. B., & Sommer, M. A.
Affiliations
University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
  • Crapse, Trinity B
  • Sommer, Marc A
ORCID
Sommer, Marc A
Venue
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-12
Volume
18
Issue
6
Pages
552-557
ISSN
0959-4388 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.conb.2008.09.017
PMC
PMC2702467
OpenAlex
W2086874661
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147
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FWCI
0.25
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Funders
National Institutes of Health (EY017592)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
Keywords
corollary discharge, sensorimotor prediction, motion monitoring, primate brain
MeSH terms
Animals, Behavior, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Electrophysiology, Humans, Nerve Net, Primates, Vocalization, Animal

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