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    Spontaneous EEG fluctuations determine the readiness potential: is preconscious brain activation a preparation process to move?

    It has been repeatedly shown that specific brain activity related to planning movement develops before the conscious intention to act. This empirical finding strongly challenges the notion of free will. Here, ...

    Han-Gue Jo, Thilo Hinterberger, Marc Wittmann in Experimental Brain Research (2013)

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    The inner sense of time: how the brain creates a representation of duration

    The neural mechanisms underlying the perception of duration have proved difficult to unravel and remain unclear. Here, Wittmann explores why this has been the case and presents recent theoretical developments ...

    Marc Wittmann in Nature Reviews Neuroscience (2013)

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    Time and decision making: differential contribution of the posterior insular cortex and the striatum during a delay discounting task

    Delay discounting refers to the fact that an immediate reward is valued more than the same reward if it occurs some time in the future. To examine the neural substrates underlying this process, we studied 13 h...

    Marc Wittmann, David S. Leland, Martin P. Paulus in Experimental Brain Research (2007)