A 2013 fMRI study found that experimenters could predict 4+ seconds before conscious awareness both when a decision would be made and what decision (add or subtract) a participant would choose, providing evidence that conscious experience of decision-making arises after neural activity has already committed to a course of action.
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“There was a very interesting study done in 2013 in which they put participants in an fMRI machine and showed them a screen, and presented two numbers on that screen, and they gave them the option of either adding or subtracting these two numbers, and the result of this study was that the experimenters could tell up to four seconds not only when this person was going to make the decision, but whether they decided to add or subtract”
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