Unconscious determinants of free decisions in the human brain

By C. Soon, Marcel Brass, Hans-Jochen Heinze, John-Dylan Haynes. Nature Neuroscience, 2008

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Decoding neural representational spaces using multivariate pattern analysis. (2014, background): “Soon et al. 2008) and the contents of working memory (Harrison & Tong 2009).”
Human volition: towards a neuroscience of will (2008, background): “For example, recent attempts to decode free choices using new algorithms suggest that neural preparation begins much earlier than was previously though”
Neural basis of reinforcement learning and decision making. (2012, background): “Finally, analysis of BOLD activity patterns during a self-timed motor task has also identified signals related to an upcoming movement even several seconds before the movement onset in the human supplementary motor area (Soon et al. 2008).”
Imagine all the people: how the brain creates and uses personality models to predict behavior. (2014, methodology): “Model estimation resulted in a “betamap” for each trial (Soon et al. 2008), which were then z-scored (Pereira et al. 2009) and inputted as the training data to the classifier.”
Motivational dynamics in language learning (2015, background): “Other studies predicted which hand the participant would move 10 seconds before this decision enters awareness (Soon et al., 2008) and used direct recordings from single neurons with more than 80% predictive accuracy (Fried et al.”
Counterfactual Choice and Learning in a Neural Network Centered on Human Lateral Frontopolar Cortex (2011, background): “FPC activity has been shown to increase when an intention or a task set has to be maintained during a delay and then implemented [28–30,32,33], while damage to left anterior prefrontal cortex, including left FPC, disrupts effective switching between task sets in such paradigms [34].”
Encoding and decoding in fMRI (2010, background): “, 2009), decision making (Hampton and O'Doherty, 2007; Soon et al., 2008) and imagery (Reddy et al.”
Not so Fast. On Some Bold Neuroscientific Claims Concerning Human Agency (2010, background): “In the experiment described in this article, the subjects were asked to relax and then “when they felt the urge to do so, they were to freely decide between one of two buttons, operated by the left and right index fingers, and press it immediately” [23].”
Learning hierarchical spatio-temporal pattern for human activity prediction (2016, background): “Neurobiological studies [4] have concluded that the human brain can perceive actions by observing only a few actionlets(1) and component action units obtained from temporal decomposition during action execution.”
Prioritizing spatial accuracy in high-resolution fMRI data using multivariate feature weight mapping (2014, background): “It should be noted that searchlights of such dimensions are common practice, or even exceeding seven millimeters (Soon et al., 2008; Stelzer et al., 2013).”