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consciousness
The state of being conscious (1, 2); the normal mental condition of the waking state of humans, characterized by the experience of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, awareness of the external world, ...
contingent negative variation
A type of event-related potential, believed to indicate attention, consisting of a large negative change in potential voltage across the cerebral cortex, especially in the frontal lobe, that develops ...
decision-making
The process of acting upon the best information available in order to determine the most appropriate course of action.
event-related potential
Another name for an evoked potential, especially an EEG response originating outside the primary sensory areas of the brain, initiated by cognitive activity, associated with the sequential processing ...
evoked potential
A type of EEG response, either generated in the primary sensory areas of the brain, initiated by a sensory stimulus, and called a sensory or exogenous potential, or generated elsewhere in the brain, ...
homunculus
A tiny man, especially the completed homunculus depicting the surface of the human body, with each part drawn in proportion to its representation in the somatosensory cortex (see illustration), or ...
Libet's delay
A period of approximately half a second between a person's skin being touched and the resulting conscious experience of being touched, although the brain receives the signal and responds to the ...
reaction time
The period of time between the detection of a stimulus at a sensory receptor and the performance of the appropriate response by the effector organ. This delay is caused by the time taken for the ...
readiness potentials and human volition Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Consciousness
The term ‘readiness potential’ (Bereitschaftspotential in the original German) was first used by Kornhuber and Deecke (1965)
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