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Do we know that some action is taken through altering some neurons directly to store that information or by feeling the action's consequences?
Both.
Efference copy is the name of the procedure of keeping a "copy" of an internally generated signal.
Proprioceptors communicate the actual sensed movement through sensors in the muscles/...
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