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1869 I. P. Hughlings Logic of Names 7 The idea then, of nervous action, is simply that of afference and efference, as the idea of a railway system is that of bringing things and people in, and taking things and people out.

1900 C. S. Sherrington in E. A. Schäfer Text-bk. Physiol. II. 1020 Another influence exerted by ‘afference’..upon the motor innervation of skeletal muscle has to be remembered.

1954 Brit. Jrnl. Animal Behaviour 2 89/2 Afference..can have two quite different sources: first, stimuli produced by muscular activity, which I shall call re-afference; second, stimuli produced by external factors, which I shall call ex-afference.

1973 R. Martin tr. E. von Holst Behav. Physiol. Animals & Men I. iii. 141 Rather than asking about the relationship between a given afference and the evoked efference (i.e. about the reflex), we set out in the opposite direction.

2008 Acta Astronautica 62 225/1 The sensory conflict during a yaw head turn in a rotating environment is the difference between the actual afference for the movement made and the expected afference for the commanded movement in a non-rotating environment.