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Discovery of the ‘Bereitschafts’ - (BP) or ‘readiness’ -potential (RP), a scalp-recorded potential change that starts up to a second or more before a self-paced motor act (Kornhuber and Deecke 1965; Gilden et al. 1966), appeared to provide an electrophysiological indicator of neuronal activity that specifically precedes and may initiate a freely. voluntary movement. There have been at least two kinds of uncertainties in this proposition.
This work was supported in part by the Research Support Program of the Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center.
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Libet, B., Wright, E.W., Gleason, C.A. (1993). Readiness-Potentials Preceding Unrestricted’ spontaneous’ vs. Pre-Planned Voluntary Acts. In: Neurophysiology of Consciousness. Contemporary Neuroscientists. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0355-1_13
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