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      Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain.

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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.

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          Journal
          Nat Neurosci
          Nature neuroscience
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          1097-6256
          1097-6256
          May 2008
          : 11
          : 5
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstrasse 1A, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
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          nn.2112
          10.1038/nn.2112
          18408715
          ab53da1a-95a0-405c-a7e9-efc0baff874c
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