Do brain signals show our decisions are made before we're aware of them?
The readiness potential observed before self-initiated movements (Libet-style experiments) reflects an unconscious decision to act, rather than stochastic neural noise accumulating to threshold.
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The readiness potential observed before self-initiated movements (Libet-style experiments) reflects an unconscious decision to act, rather than stochastic neural noise accumulating to threshold.
- TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL) (Brain, 1983) (opens in a new tab)DOI
- An accumulator model for spontaneous neural activity prior to self-initiated movement (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012) (opens in a new tab)DOI
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