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This mechanism, called corollary discharge or reafference, reduces our experience of the sensations that we cause by our own actions.
This enables us to identify the more important changes in sensation that are caused by external events and to distinguish them from sensations caused by our own actions.
If this mechanism didn't work properly, we might falsely attribute sensations caused by our own actions to something happening in the outside world over which we have no control.
In terms of experience, patients who report that their movements feel alien should be more aware of the sensations caused by their own actions.
In fact, we have found precisely that: patients with delusions of control report that the sensations that occur when they stroke their own palm are just as intense as the sensations caused when someone else strokes their palm.
Their physiological responses to self-generated sensations are not being reduced.
As yet, we know very little about the mechanisms that allow us to predict the sensations caused by our own actions.
The part of the brain that generates actions - the frontal cortex - must be sending signals to regions of the brain where sensations are processed, but we know very little about the nature of these signals or the precise pathways involved.
Participants develop the capacity to allow distressing moods, thoughts, and sensations to come and go, without having to battle with them.
Increased hope, positive expectations, and reduced anxiety can all modify “mindsets” that guide how patients respond to noxious sensations.
What is produced are sensations of change, not an examination of the historical changes of a millennium.
“It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the … state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy,” he wrote in The Federalist Papers No. 9.
Taking advantage of the first moment of silence, Levin got up, wishing to free himself if only for a few minutes from his painful sensations, and said he would fetch his wife.
Then, having fallen into the blackness of the pit, he became stunned, no longer having any clear perception of his sensations.
CHAPTER 7A Whale of Unknown SpeciesALTHOUGH I WAS startled by this unexpected descent, I at least have a very clear recollection of my sensations during it.
If only I had been able to share with Conseil the intense sensations rising in my brain, competing with him in exclamations of wonderment!
Even today as I write these lines, my sensations are so intense that an involuntary terror sweeps over me, and my lungs still seem short of air!
Charles from time to time opened his eyes, his mind grew weary, and, sleep coming upon him, he soon fell into a doze wherein, his recent sensations blending with memories, he became conscious of a double self, at once student and married man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the operation theatre as of old.
She would have liked to hear nothing, to see nothing, so as not to disturb the meditation on her love, that, do what she would, became lost in external sensations.
All the sensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching heart opened out amorously.
His behaviour was not without a certain subtlety; there is not much thoughtless action in the provinces: sensations are so infrequent there that people suppress them.
The violent sensations he had experienced in the short time that he had spent in Besancon had completely drained his strength.
The daylight was rapidly increasing and now flooded the room; Julien recovered all the exquisite sensations of pride when he was once more able to see in his arms and almost at his feet this charming woman, the only woman that he had ever loved, who, a few hours earlier, had been entirely wrapped up in the fear of a terrible God and in devotion to duty.
At my age, a young girl, beautiful, clever, where can she find sensations, if not in love?
Two months of struggle and of novel sensations had so to speak altered her whole moral nature.
The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.
But the unusual occurrences of the few preceding days, the altered mien of her lover during those events, his unwonted indifference to herself, and chiefly the romantic idolatry of Isabella, had aroused new sensations in her bosom.
The nocturnal coolness of the atmosphere cheered him up; the silence, the darkness gave him sharp sensations of delight, and he loitered on his way.
He started all afire, followed the same itinerary, experienced the same sensations, accomplished the same acts, with minute exactitude; and more than ten times over, he saw the drowned man present himself to be embraced, when he extended his arms to seize and clasp his love.
These abrupt and alternate sensations of voluptuousness and disgust, these successive contacts of burning love and frigid death, set him panting for breath, and caused him to shudder and gasp in anguish.
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