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eccentric projection

eccentric projection Eccentric projection is the tendency for a sensation caused by stimulation of a nerve pathway, rather than its end organ, to be experienced as if it came from the nerve’s peripheral ending.

Eccentric projection is the tendency for a sensation caused by stimulation of a nerve pathway, rather than its end organ, to be experienced as if it came from the nerve’s peripheral ending. In historical psychology, it is treated as a form of nervous projection and distinguished from using projection to mean general localization in space.