It is suggested that this aspect of sense of agency is informed by sensorimotor processes, such as efferent motor information and sensory feedback.
Efferent fibres carry motor information to skeletal muscle and to autonomic ganglia (and then to visceral structures), and afferent fibres carry sensory information from them.
This structural connectivity pattern supports the notion of claustrum involvement in multimodal integration of sensory and motor information.
Perceptual symbols are believed to be multimodal traces of neural activity that contain at least some of the motor information present during actual sensorimotor experience (Barsalou, 1999).
Theories of secondary embodiment propose "that the semantic system is independent of but directly associated with sensory and motor information," whereas theories of weak embodiment "propose that semantic representations are at least partly constituted by sensory-motor information" (Meteyard et al., 2012, pp. 791 2).
Matching Units perform a multimodal signal integration by correlating sensory and motor information analogous to that observed in cerebral neuronal networks.
This conclusion would likely be rejected by modularists because their commitment to encapsulation and domain specificity implies that language processing cannot be modulated by motor information and background knowledge.
The researchers then placed the rodents in separate chambers and connected their brains using arrays of microelectrodes - each roughly one hundredth the diameter of a human hair - inserted into the area of the cortex that processes motor information.
This effect suggests that motor information may have become part of the memory trace, thus indicating that action-phrases merely heard do not produce the same effective encoding of real enacted action-sentences.
Furthermore, when one mentally simulates movements, one temporarily maintains and manipulates motor information.
In addition, the variability of the average macrostate size is increased when motor information is not present.
