Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will

Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will

Patrick Haggard

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 934-946 (December 2008) | doi:10.1038/nrn2497

To Do or Not to Do: The Neural Signature of Self-Control

To Do or Not to Do: The Neural Signature of Self-Control

Marcel Brass, and Patrick Haggard

The Journal of Neuroscience, August 22, 2007, 27(34):9141-9145; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0924-07.200

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Participants in this study were asked to make a simple manual action on some trials, whereas on other trials they prepared the action but cancelled it at the last moment. Participants’ estimates of when they experienced conscious intentions to make actions that were subsequently cancelled allowed the voluntary inhibition ofvoluntary action to be localized to the anterior frontomedian cortex.

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