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The most direct evidence pertaining to the effects of conscious choices upon brain activities comes from experiments in which consciously controlled cognitive efforts are found to be empirically correlated to measured physical effects in the brain. An example is the experiment of Ochsner et al. (2001). The subjects are trained how to cognitively reevaluate emotional scenes by consciously creating and holding in place an alternative fictional story of what is really happening in connection with an emotion-generating scene they are viewing.
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Stapp, H.P. (2011). Application to Neuropsychology. In: Mindful Universe. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18076-7_8
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