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Readiness potentials in three tasks: mental calculations, imagined actions and real actions are measured and compared. In all three cases, we found similarities in ~ 1-s shifts of brain electrical activity characteristic for readiness potential.
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Why is it important?
These results show that: (1) the brain needs time to be ready for a purely mental task, and (2) a required preparatory interval is analogical to the one observed before intentional body movements. As such, the readiness potential represents a universal process of unconscious preparatory brain activity preceding any, including purely mental, voluntary action.
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A master's project which turned into a great publication!
Professor (Full) Gregory Kroliczak
Uniwersytet im Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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This page is a summary of: When is the brain ready for mental actions? Readiness potential for mental calculations, Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, January 2020, Exeley, Inc.,
DOI: 10.21307/ane-2019-036.
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