Who controls our actions? (III): Direct brain stimulation, Movement illusion, and Inhibition.
Channel: mind_philosophy
Date: 2021-06-08

Last chunk of the Podcast: "Who controls our actions?"
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Topics and Sources:

Direct electrical stimulation experiment 1: Fornia et al. (2020). Direct electrical stimulation of the premotor cortex shuts down awareness of voluntary actions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14517-4

Direct electrical stimulation experiment 2: Desmurget et al. (2019). Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1169896

Executive Setting. CAUTION: Very technical! Chiu, Y. (2014). Unconsciously Triggered Response Inhibition Requires An Executive Setting.  https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031497

Inhibition as our "default state" of the brain: (CAUTION: Very technical as well!) Criaud et al. (2012). Proactive inhibitory control of response as the default state of executive control. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00059

The role of inhibition in voluntary action: Sumner et al. (2008). At the Edge of Consciousness: Automatic Motor Activation and Voluntary Control. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858408314435