Decision time for free will

Patrick Haggard

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.028

Decision time for free will

Neuron. 2011 Feb 10;69(3):404-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.028.

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Patrick Haggard¹

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK. p.haggard@ucl.ac.uk

PMID: 21315252
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.028

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Fried et al. report electrical recordings from single neurons in several areas of the human medial frontal lobe prior to voluntary movement. These data shed important new light on the neuronal mechanisms of human volition and on the hotly debated relation between consciousness and will.

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