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The ability of subjects to match the angle of a passively positioned knee joint by active positioning of the opposite leg is nearly constant with time from 15s to 3 min. However, their ability to match this angle from memory is equally good. Thus, knowledge of joint angle after movement has ceased does not necessarily require ongoing input from tonic peripheral receptors.
Horch et al. (Sat,) studied this question.