Abstract In 1983 Benjamin Libet and colleagues published a paper apparently challenging
the view that the conscious intention to move precedes the brain's preparation for …

The neuroscience of volition is an emerging subfield of the brain sciences, with hundreds of
papers on the role of consciousness in action formation published each year. This makes …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Does the brain think? Is it the creator of the world of experience, the constructor of the
subject? This widespread interpretation of the neurosciences is contrasted in this book with …

A neuroscientific perspective on the mind–body problem that focuses on how the brain
actually accomplishes mental causation. The issues of mental causation, consciousness …

It is crucial to understand what brain signals can be decoded from single trials with different
recording techniques for the development of Brain–Machine Interfaces. A specific challenge …

Is consciousness—the subjective awareness of the sensations, perceptions, beliefs, desires,
and intentions of mental life—a genuine cause of human action or a mere impotent …

In the early 1980s, Libet found that a readiness potential (RP) over central scalp locations
begins on average several hundred milliseconds before the reported time of awareness of …

It has been repeatedly shown that specific brain activity related to planning movement
develops before the conscious intention to act. This empirical finding strongly challenges the …

Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary effort to understand the structures and functions of the
brain and brain-mind relations. This effort results in an increasing amount of data, generated …