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Action-Perception Coupling

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Referent control of action and perception

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The notion of referent control helps solve both problems of action as well as some problems of perception or better to say, problems of action-perception coupling since it has been recognized for over a century that perception and action are interdependent (Helmholtz 1866). Previous attempts to solve action-perception problems that will be considered in this Chapter have been based on the efference copy (EC) concept introduced by von Holst and Mittelstaedt (von Holst and Mittelstaedt 1950; Holst 1954) or a similar concept of corollary discharges introduced by Sperry (1950). The feasibility of these concepts has been questioned, both on physical and physiological grounds (Chaps. 2 and 6). I will offer alternative solutions to some action-perception problems in the framework of referent control.

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Feldman, A.G. (2015). Action-Perception Coupling. In: Referent control of action and perception. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2736-4_8

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