{"id":28060,"date":"2016-07-20T00:48:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/what-free-will-looks-like-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:13:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:13:45","slug":"what-free-will-looks-like-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/what-free-will-looks-like-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"What free will looks like in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-free-will-looks-like-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> studies where scientists watch as people respond to cues or commands, Johns Hopkins researchers found a way to observe people\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain activity<\/a> as they made choices entirely on their own. The findings, which pinpoint the parts of the brain involved in <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/decision-making\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">decision-making<\/a> and action, are now online, and due to appear in a special October issue of the journal <i>Attention, Perception, &amp; Psychophysics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we peek into people\u2019s brains and find out how we make choices entirely on our own?\u201d asked Susan Courtney, a professor of psychological and brain sciences. \u201cWhat parts of the brain are involved in free choice?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-07-free-brain.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;07-free-brain.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act. Unlike most brain studies where scientists watch as people respond to cues or commands, Johns Hopkins researchers found a way to observe people\u2019s brain activity as they made choices entirely on their own. The findings, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50124,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28060\/revisions\/50124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}