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ArticleTrends in neurosciences2018

Volition and the Brain - Revisiting a Classic Experimental Study.

Chris D Frith, Patrick Haggard

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Article in Trends in neurosciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Neurons as will and representation.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022
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  10. Beta and Theta Oscillations Differentially Support Free Versus Forced Control over Multiple-Target Search.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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  11. FromFrontiers in psychology · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Chris D FrithInstitute of Philosophy, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK; Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at University College London, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. Electronic address: c.frith@ucl.ac.uk.
Patrick HaggardInstitute of Philosophy, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK; Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Département d'Études Cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, 29 Rue d'Ulm, Paris 75005, France. Electronic address: p.haggard@ucl.ac.uk.

Funding

European Research Council 323943
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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BrainVolitionConsciousnessMovementagencyfree willLibetregretresponsibilityvolition

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PMID29933770
PMCPMC6024487

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