ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2023
What is the intention to move and when does it occur?
Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Anxiety disorders alter cognitive-motor integration during visuomotor adaptation and retention.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Spatial Distance and Temporal Attentional Focus Modulate Voluntary Action Preparation and Awareness.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- Ecologically Relevant Decisions and Personality Configurations: A Theoretical-Clinical Proposal Considering Quantum Cognition.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Neuronal responses in the human primary motor cortex coincide with the subjective onset of movement intention in brain-machine interface-mediated actions.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Volitional and forced running ability in mice lacking intact primary motor cortex.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2025Article
- Probing for intentions: The early readiness potential does not reflect awareness of motor preparation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The collapse of the wave function as the mediator of free will in prime neurons.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Scaling up from sentience: modularity, conscious broadcast, and a constitutive solution to the combination problem.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Moving in response to an unseen visual stimulus.Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2024Article
- Mental causation: an evolutionary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Erratum issued
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9 authors.
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Abstract
In 1983 Benjamin Libet and colleagues published a paper apparently challenging the view that the conscious intention to move precedes the brain's preparation for movement. The experiment initiated debates about the nature of intention, the neurophysiology of movement, and philosophical and legal understanding of free will and moral responsibility. Here we review the concept of "conscious intention" and attempts to measure its timing. Scalp electroencephalographic activity prior to movement, the Bereitschaftspotential, clearly begins prior to the reported onset of conscious intent. However, the interpretation of this finding remains controversial. Numerous studies show that the Libet method for determining intent, W time, is not accurate and may be misleading. We conclude that intention has many different aspects, and although we now understand much more about how the brain makes movements, identifying the time of conscious intention is still elusive.
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