Our Brains Divulge Our Decisions Before We Even Know Them

We’d like to think that we are in charge of all of our own decisions. Each time that we make a choice in the busy moments of our day-to-day lives, we believe we’re calling all the shots. Similarly, we think that the never-ending stream of thoughts and images that scroll across the theater of our waking minds are of our own choosing.

But recent research conducted by Roger Koenig-Robert and Joel Pearson at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, predicted decisions being made as far as 11 seconds in advance of test subjects making a voluntary choice. The experimenters were able to do this by decoding neural patterns of activity in the frontal and visual areas of the brain of test participants by using functional magnetic resonance imagery.

In the study, participants were tasked with freely choosing to imagine one of two distinct images—a red circular image with horizontal stripes or a green circular image with vertical stripes. The researchers were able to predict, in advance, the future content of test subjects’: specifically, which image they would choose to imagine.

The researchers caution against concluding that all decisions are predetermined by prior neural activity. As Professor Pearson says in, “Our results cannot guarantee that all choices are preceded by involuntary images, but it shows that this mechanism exists, and it potentially biases our everyday choices.”

yep that's the decision you don't want to make, but you need too....? bite the bullet time, roll up your sleeves and get on with it ...?

So much for free will

Sounds a lot like Dr Vasily's Neuroeconomics course on Coursera.

Consciousness allows us to know what brain has decided...? Where does this leave personal responsibility....?

Up to 11 seconds ahead... another nail in the coffin of freewill kimharten

explain libras then

The libert experiments?

'This research may also lead to additional studies to better understand how to help those suffering from intrusive thoughts... where sufferers seem to lack control of the content and strengths of their mental imagery.' - Then this study is worth supporting.

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