The Timing of Mental Events: Libet's Experimental Findings and Their Implications

Author: Libet B.

Source: Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 11, Number 2, June 2002 , pp. 291-299(9)

Publisher: Academic Press

Abstract:

The major findings by Libet et al. are briefly summarized. The criticisms and alternative proposals by Trevena and Miller, Pockett, and Gomes (this issue) are analyzed and found to be largely unwarranted. Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

Keywords: Key Words: subjective timings; referral backward in time; conscious delays; voluntary acts; volitional intention to act; cerebral initiation of actions; free will; conscious control by veto

Language: English

Document Type: Editorial

Affiliations: University of California at Davis, Davis, California, 95616:

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