The death of free will began with thousands of finger taps. In 1964, two German scientists monitored the electrical activity of a dozen people’s brains. Each day for several months, volunteers came ...
Als Beginn der neurowissenschaftlichen Beschäftigung mit dem freien Willen gilt ein Experiment, das der Physiologe Benjamin Libet in den 1980er-Jahren durchgeführt hat. Libet bat Testpersonen, einen ...
Im März des Jahres 1979 versammelte der Neurophysiologe Benjamin Libet eine Gruppe Freiwilliger in einem Laborraum des Mount Zion Hospital der University of California. Keinem der Beteiligten war wohl ...
The results of Libet's experiments have generated a lot of controversy about free will, and some neurophysiologists have even concluded that it does not exist. Moreover, Libet's experiment has been ...
You might feel that you have the ability to make choices, decisions and plans — and the freedom to change your mind at any point if you so desire — but many psychologists and scientists would tell you ...
Benjamin Libet, a distinguished neurophysiologist whose pioneering studies of the human brain explored the nature of free will and revealed unsuspected links between the conscious and unconscious ...
Don’t blame impulsive people for their poor decisions. It’s not necessarily their fault. Impulsivity could result from not having enough time to veto our own actions. At least that is the implication ...
In his response to my letter about the 1983 Libet experiment (1 September, p 24), Chris Frith asks two questions: What triggers the action demanded by the experiment, and why the report of the ...
Libet showed consistently that there was unconscious brain activity associated with the action – a change in EEG signals that Libet called “readiness potential” — for an average of half a second ...
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