What Is the Readiness Potential?
| Autor: | Joanna Pak, Pengbo 'Ben' Hu, Aaron Schurger, Adina L. Roskies |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Volition
Consciousness Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Movement Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Contingent Negative Variation Intention Electroencephalography 050105 experimental psychology Article 03 medical and health sciences Neural activity 0302 clinical medicine Phenomenon Free will medicine Relevance (law) Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common Cognitive science Volition (psychology) medicine.diagnostic_test 05 social sciences Brain Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Action (philosophy) Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Trends in cognitive sciences |
| ISSN: | 1879-307X 1364-6613 |
| Popis: | The readiness potential (RP), a slow buildup of electrical potential recorded at the scalp using electroencephalography, has been associated with neural activity involved in movement preparation. It became famous thanks to Benjamin Libet (Brain 1983;106:623-642), who used the time difference between the RP and self-reported time of conscious intention to move to argue that we lack free will. The RP's informativeness about self-generated action and derivatively about free will has prompted continued research on this neural phenomenon. Here, we argue that recent advances in our understanding of the RP, including computational modeling of the phenomenon, call for a reassessment of its relevance for understanding volition and the philosophical problem of free will. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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