This primer explores how corollary discharges affect perceptions of self and world, relating to schizophrenia.
The brain does not merely react to the world—it also anticipates the consequences of its own actions. Hidden within this predictive machinery lies a signalling motif, corollary discharge, which plays a key role in distinguishing between ‘self’ and ‘world’. A disruption in this mechanism has been implicated in the characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia. But what are corollary discharges, and how do they relate to schizophrenia?
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