Volition and the Brain – Revisiting a Classic Experimental Study

In 1983 Libet et al. demonstrated that brain activity associated with a voluntary act precedes conscious experience of the intention to act by several hundred milliseconds. The implication that it is the brain, rather than ‘free will’, that initiates voluntary acts has been discussed ever since by p...

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Autores principales: Frith, Chris D., Haggard, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Applied Science Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29933770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2018.04.009
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spelling pubmed-60244872018-07-05 Volition and the Brain – Revisiting a Classic Experimental Study Frith, Chris D. Haggard, Patrick Trends Neurosci Article In 1983 Libet et al. demonstrated that brain activity associated with a voluntary act precedes conscious experience of the intention to act by several hundred milliseconds. The implication that it is the brain, rather than ‘free will’, that initiates voluntary acts has been discussed ever since by philosophers and lawyers, as well as by scientists. We show here how Libet’s original study gave rise to an entire research field of experimental investigations of volition. Elsevier Applied Science Publishing 2018-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6024487/ /pubmed/29933770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2018.04.009 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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