Chris Frith, “In Search of a Mechanism: From the Brain to the Mind” (Open Agenda, 2020)
New Books in Neuroscience
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How to Predict When to Lift Your Finger
There were these very influential experiments that were conducted by benjamin libbert. He found in the brain, it starts to go up about 500 milu seconds before you lift your finger. The brain activity precedes the report when they decided to lift their finger. And i think john dillan haines in berlin has shown using f maria, that you can actually predict something like six seconds in advance, six seconds, which finger they're going to lift. But then we'd have to argue about the merits of the royal society and our libraries. That's a whole different kettle of fish. Am, let's move to freewell.
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