Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choice
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Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choice. / Filevich, Elisa; Vanneste, Patricia; Brass, Marcel; Fias, Wim; Haggard, Patrick; Kühn, Simone.
in: CONSCIOUS COGN, Jahrgang 22, Nr. 4, 12.2013, S. 1271-84.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Brain correlates of subjective freedom of choice
AU - Filevich, Elisa
AU - Vanneste, Patricia
AU - Brass, Marcel
AU - Fias, Wim
AU - Haggard, Patrick
AU - Kühn, Simone
N1 - Copyright © 2013. Published by Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - The subjective feeling of free choice is an important feature of human experience. Experimental tasks have typically studied free choice by contrasting free and instructed selection of response alternatives. These tasks have been criticised, and it remains unclear how they relate to the subjective feeling of freely choosing. We replicated previous findings of the fMRI correlates of free choice, defined objectively. We introduced a novel task in which participants could experience and report a graded sense of free choice. BOLD responses for conditions subjectively experienced as free identified a postcentral area distinct from the areas typically considered to be involved in free action. Thus, the brain correlates of subjective feeling of free action were not directly related to any established brain correlates of objectively-defined free action. Our results call into question traditional assumptions about the relation between subjective experience of choosing and activity in the brain's so-called voluntary motor areas.
AB - The subjective feeling of free choice is an important feature of human experience. Experimental tasks have typically studied free choice by contrasting free and instructed selection of response alternatives. These tasks have been criticised, and it remains unclear how they relate to the subjective feeling of freely choosing. We replicated previous findings of the fMRI correlates of free choice, defined objectively. We introduced a novel task in which participants could experience and report a graded sense of free choice. BOLD responses for conditions subjectively experienced as free identified a postcentral area distinct from the areas typically considered to be involved in free action. Thus, the brain correlates of subjective feeling of free action were not directly related to any established brain correlates of objectively-defined free action. Our results call into question traditional assumptions about the relation between subjective experience of choosing and activity in the brain's so-called voluntary motor areas.
KW - Brain
KW - Brain Mapping
KW - Choice Behavior
KW - Female
KW - Freedom
KW - Functional Neuroimaging
KW - Gyrus Cinguli
KW - Humans
KW - Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
KW - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
KW - Male
KW - Motor Cortex
KW - Parietal Lobe
KW - Personal Autonomy
KW - Prefrontal Cortex
KW - Psychomotor Performance
KW - Reaction Time
KW - Volition
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2013.08.011
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2013.08.011
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 24021855
VL - 22
SP - 1271
EP - 1284
JO - CONSCIOUS COGN
JF - CONSCIOUS COGN
SN - 1053-8100
IS - 4
ER -