Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain. Soon, C. S., Brass, M., Heinze, H., & Haynes, J. Nature neuroscience, 11(5):543–5, May, 2008.
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There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.
@article{Soon2008,
	title = {Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain.},
	volume = {11},
	issn = {1097-6256},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18408715},
	doi = {10.1038/nn.2112},
	abstract = {There has been a long controversy as to whether subjectively 'free' decisions are determined by brain activity ahead of time. We found that the outcome of a decision can be encoded in brain activity of prefrontal and parietal cortex up to 10 s before it enters awareness. This delay presumably reflects the operation of a network of high-level control areas that begin to prepare an upcoming decision long before it enters awareness.},
	number = {5},
	urldate = {2015-12-10},
	journal = {Nature neuroscience},
	author = {Soon, Chun Siong and Brass, Marcel and Heinze, Hans-Jochen and Haynes, John-Dylan},
	month = may,
	year = {2008},
	pmid = {18408715},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Brain, Brain Mapping, Brain: physiology, Choice Behavior, Choice Behavior: physiology, Cognition, Cognition: physiology, Consciousness, Consciousness: physiology, Decision Making, Decision Making: physiology, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Nerve Net, Nerve Net: physiology, Neural Pathways, Neural Pathways: physiology, Neuropsychological Tests, Parietal Lobe, Parietal Lobe: physiology, Photic Stimulation, Prefrontal Cortex, Prefrontal Cortex: physiology, Psychomotor Performance, Psychomotor Performance: physiology, Reaction Time, Reaction Time: physiology, Time Factors, Unconscious (Psychology), spontaneous activity, spontaneous behaviour},
	pages = {543--5},
}

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