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The time course of neural activity predictive of self-initiated movement Open
Decades of research have shown that early ramping activity is a very reliable antecedent of self-initiated movement. However, the dominant paradigm has been to only analyze data epochs culminating in movement, which discounts how often slo…
Intention and foresight in deliberate actions: An ERP study Open
The distinction between intention and foresight is critical for law and morality. For example, a military officer deciding to bomb a target while foreseeing civilian casualties raises questions about whether these deaths were intended or m…
Making Decision Support Systems Intelligible: Explainability or Interpretability? Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems assist humans to predict future outcomes by analyzing large, heterogeneous data of past patterns. In particular, Decision Support Systems (DSSs) leverage AI to analyze vast amounts of information and pr…
A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition. Open
Historically, voluntary action and volition more generally have been investigated through the lens of meaningless decisions. Importantly, these findings have been used in the debate about key notions like free will and moral responsibility…
Symmetry, not ambiguity, accelerates access to awareness Open
Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensory information. However, the relationship between ambiguity resolution and conscious access rem…
Intention and foresight in deliberate actions: An ERP study Open
The distinction between intention and foresight is critical for law and morality. For example, a military officer deciding to bomb a target while foreseeing civilian casualties raises questions about whether these deaths were intended or m…
A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition. Open
Historically, voluntary action and volition more generally have been investigated through the lens of meaningless decisions. Importantly, these findings have been used in the debate about key notions like free will and moral responsibility…
A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition. Open
Historically, voluntary action and volition more generally have been investigated through the lens of meaningless decisions. Importantly, these findings have been used in the debate about key notions like free will and moral responsibility…
Empirically validating a computational model of automatic behavior shaping Open
Background Mobile sensing technology allows automated behavior shaping routines to be incorporated into health behavior interventions and other settings. In previous work, a computational model was built to investigate how to best arrange …
Probing for intentions: The early readiness potential does not reflect awareness of motor preparation Open
Voluntary actions are typically preceded by the readiness potential (RP), a negative midfrontal electroencephalography (EEG) deflection that begins ~2 s before movement. What cognitive and neural process the RP reflects and how it relates …
A multi-measurement study of the relation between deliberation and volition Open
Historically, voluntary action and volition more generally have been investigated through the lens of meaningless decisions. Importantly, these findings have been used in the debate about key notions like free will and moral responsibility…
View article: Volitional stopping is preceded by a transient beta oscillation
Volitional stopping is preceded by a transient beta oscillation Open
Human motor cortex EEG beta (15-30 Hz) oscillations undergo transient power modulations (bursts) during volitional control of movements. They are a potential control signal for brain-machine interfaces and are a therapeutic target in Parki…
What kind of ‘Explainable AI’ do users need? Open
Much attention is currently given to generative artificial intelligence (AI), but most currently available AI technologies consist in so-called decision support systems (DSSs). DSSs are meant to improve the efficiency of human decision-mak…
Slow ramping emerges from spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural networks Open
The capacity to initiate actions endogenously is critical for goal-directed behavior. Spontaneous voluntary actions are typically preceded by slow-ramping activity in medial frontal cortex that begins around two seconds before movement, wh…
Early Ramping Neural Activity Reliably Precedes Self-Initiated Action But Does Not Predict It. Open
Experimental research on self-initiated movement has for decades relied on the same methodology: the data epochs subjected to analysis are only those culminating in a movement. This approach reliably reveals early ramping activity starting…
Pupil dilations prior to freely timed actions reflect the reported timing of conscious intention Open
Freely timed actions are typically preceded by a slow anticipatory buildup of cortical brain activity, which has been extensively studied. However, such free actions are also preceded by slow pupil dilations in both humans and other animal…
Towards a genuinely interdisciplinary ‘science of the mind’ Open
In recent decades, the neuroscientific community has moved from describing the neural underpinnings of mental phenomena – as characterized by experimental psychology and philosophy of mind – to attempting to redefine those mental phenomena…
Towards an interdisciplinary ‘science of the mind’: a call for enhanced collaboration between philosophy and neuroscience Open
In recent decades, the neuroscientific community has moved from describing the neural underpinnings of mental phenomena – as characterized by experimental psychology and philosophy of mind – to attempting to redefine those mental phenomena…
A systematic review of Flotation-Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) Open
Background Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) is a therapeutic technique that involves immersing an individual in an environment with minimal sensory input or stimulation. The goal of REST is to induce a state of relaxatio…
What kind of Explainable AI do users need? Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems that make predictions, translate text, generate text and images, and much more are ubiquitous in modern life. Such AI systems typically perform tasks that humans cannot perform with the same degree of s…
Probing for Intentions: The Early Readiness Potential Does Not Reflect Awareness of Motor Preparation Open
Voluntary actions are typically preceded by the Readiness Potential (RP), a negative midfrontal EEG deflection that begins ∼2 seconds before movement. What cognitive and neural process the RP reflects and how it relates to conscious intent…
Collective events and individual affect shape autobiographical memory Open
How do collective events shape how we remember our lives? We leveraged advances in natural language processing as well as a rich, longitudinal assessment of 1,000 Americans throughout 2020 to examine how memory is influenced by two promine…
Libet’s legacy: A primer to the neuroscience of volition Open
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 the state-of-the-art in the discipline poorly accessible t…
Slow ramping emerges from spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural networks Open
Highlights 1. We reveal a mechanism for slow-ramping signals before spontaneous voluntary movements. 2. Slow synapses stabilize spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural network. 3. We validate model predictions in human frontal cortical …
COVID-Dynamic: A large-scale longitudinal study of socioemotional and behavioral change across the pandemic Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous societal upheaval globally. In the US, beyond the devastating toll on life and health, it triggered an economic shock unseen since the great depression and laid bare preexisting societal inequities…