Scientists have shown that neural recordings can be used to forecast when spontaneous decisions will take place in research published in the journal iNature Neuroscience/i. "Experiments like this have been used to argue that free will is an illusion," says Zachary Mainen, a neuroscientist at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, Portugal, who led the study, "but we think that interpretation is mistaken." The scientists used recordings ...Saturday, 4 October 2014
How We Use Our Brain to Forecast Decisions Revealed
Scientists have shown that neural recordings can be used to forecast when spontaneous decisions will take place in research published in the journal iNature Neuroscience/i. "Experiments like this have been used to argue that free will is an illusion," says Zachary Mainen, a neuroscientist at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, Portugal, who led the study, "but we think that interpretation is mistaken." The scientists used recordings ...
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