The timing of mental events: Libet's experimental findings and their implications

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 291-299

  Libet, Benjamin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral initiation of actions; Conscious control by veto; Conscious delays; Free will; Referral backward in time; Subjective timings; Volitional intention to act; Voluntary acts

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; CHRONOLOGY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME PERCEPTION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0036614159     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/ccog.2002.0568     Document Type: Editorial

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