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Freedom through understanding: instructed knowledge shapes voluntary action choices

2025-03-10

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<p>The capacity for voluntary action is a distinctive feature of human minds. However, experimental studies of volition struggled to capture defining features of human voluntariness. Here we developed a competitive game which incentivised participants to innovate their action choices to find the right time to avoid a collision with an opponent who predicted the timing of the participant’s action choice. One group...

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Literature Corpus work: 4207ed3a-4f26-5507-862d-a47d506c0c19
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mgksv_v1

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