On habit learning in neuroscience and free will

Is Science Compatible with Free Will?: Exploring Free Will and Consciousness in the Light of Quantum Physics and Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 177-194

  Bernácer, Javier ^a   Giménez Amaya, José Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Reason and Faith (CRYF)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aristotle; Basal ganglia; Habit; Habit learning; Libet; Neuroscience; Thomas aquinas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949225442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5212-6_12     Document Type: Chapter

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