Time of Conscious Intention to Act in Relation to Onset of Cerebral Activity (Readiness-Potential)

Autor: Dennis K. Pearl, Curtis A. Gleason, Benjamin Libet, E. W. Wright
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Neurophysiology of Consciousness ISBN: 9781461267225
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0355-1_15
Popis: The recordable cerebral activity (readiness-potential, RP) that precedes a freely voluntary, fully endogenous motor act was directly compared with the reportable time (W) for appearance of the subjective experience of ‘wanting’ or intending to act. The onset of cerebral activity clearly preceded by at least several hundred milliseconds the reported time of conscious intention to act. This relationship held even for those series (with ‘type II’ RPs) in which subjects reported that all of the 40 self-initiated movements in the series appeared ‘spontaneously’ and capriciously.
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