Volition

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Age similarities in the inertial properties of attention. 
  • Assessment of aspiration risk in stroke patients with quantification of voluntary cough. 
  • Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will. 
  • Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. 
  • Community-based voluntary counseling and testing services in rural communities of Chiang Mai Province, Northern Thailand. 
  • Decoding of temporal intervals from cortical ensemble activity. 
  • Effect of sex on ethanol consumption and conditioned taste aversion in adolescent and adult rats. 
  • Exogenous vs. endogenous attention: Shifting the balance of fronto-parietal activity. 
  • Free will without consciousness? 
  • Hypnotizing Libet: Readiness potentials with non-conscious volition. 
  • Informed consent in a clinical trial of a novel treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Item-specific priming of voluntary task switches. 
  • On the relation of mind wandering and ADHD symptomatology. 
  • Readiness potentials driven by non-motoric processes. 
  • Religious belief as compensatory control. 
  • Reward-guided learning beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens: the integrative functions of cortico-basal ganglia networks. 
  • Stressor-specific alterations in corticosterone and immune responses in mice. 
  • The concept of voluntary consent. 
  • The neurobiology of innate, volitional and learned vocalizations in mammals and birds. 
  • Understanding and sharing intentions: the origins of cultural cognition. 
  • Unwilling versus unable: infants' understanding of intentional action. 
  • Volitional media multitasking: awareness of performance costs and modulation of media multitasking as a function of task demand. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke Science & Society