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Voluntary action as problem-solving: an fMRI study

2025-08-13

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<p>The capacity to pursue a goal, across a complex series of intermediate stages, is a distinctive achievement of human cognition. Scientific investigations of goal-directed action have emphasized either of two rather different aspects of this capacity. Research on executive function has described coordination of extended action sequences that solve multi-part problems. Meanwhile, research on voluntary action has...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/6uxyk_v1

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