How does neuroscience affect our conception of volition?

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 109-130

  Roskies, Adina L ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; control; decision; determinism; free will; intention

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FREEDOM; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; VOLITION;

EID: 77957008066     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: 15454126     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-060909-153151     Document Type: Review

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