First-person approaches in neuroscience of consciousness: Brain dynamics correlate with the intention to act

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-116

  Jo, Han Gue ^a,b   Wittmann, Marc ^c   Borghardt, Tilmann Lhündrup ^a   Hinterberger, Thilo ^d   Schmidt, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^c Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

First person data; Intention to act; Libet experiment; Neurophenomenology; Readiness potential; Slow cortical potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSCIENCE; OCULOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; DEVICES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VOLITION;

EID: 84897397753     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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