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Neurowetenschappers kunnen keuzes van mensen 11 seconden voordat ze gemaakt worden voorspellen.

10 March 2019 17:32

Free will, from a neuroscience perspective, can look like quite quaint. In a study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in Australia were able to predict basic choices participants made 11 seconds before they consciously declared their decisions.

In the study, 14 participants—each placed in an fMRI machine—were shown two patterns, one of red horizontal stripes and one of green vertical stripes. They were given a maximum of 20 seconds to choose between them. Once they’d made a decision, they pressed a button and had 10 seconds to visualize the pattern as hard as they could. Finally, they were asked “what did you imagine?” and “how vivid was it?” They answered these questions by pressing buttons.

Using the fMRI to monitor brain activity and machine learning to analyze the neuroimages, the researchers were able to predict which pattern participants would choose up to 11 seconds before they consciously made the decision. And they were able to predict how vividly the participants would be able to envisage it.

https://qz.com/1569158/neuroscientists-read-unconscious-brain-activity-to-predict-decisions/

Link om onderzoek zélf te lezen:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39813-y


 
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