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About 5% of the nerves in the auditory nerve are efferent, and act to modulate the firing of the afferent nerves. Perhaps part of the modulation they achieve is
by intrasight 9y ago
About 5% of the nerves in the auditory nerve are efferent, and act to modulate the firing of the afferent nerves. Perhaps part of the modulation they achieve is to prevent us "hearing" our eyes move.
- intrasight 9y agoAh, for example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3343276/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3343276/ "Historical evidence in-vivo suggests that a primary function of the EVS is to tune vestibular sensation to the interest and needs of the organism, for example by decreasing the sensitivity during large self-generated movements [30, 31], and adjusting the background discharge characteristics of afferents [6]."