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- Title
Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain.
- Authors
Chun Siong Soon; Brass, Marcel; Heinze, Hans-Jochen; Haynes, John-Dylan
- Abstract
There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.
- Publication
Nature Neuroscience, 2008, Vol 11, Issue 5, p543
- ISSN
1097-6256
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nn.2112