Human Ability to Make Abstract Choices Independently Verified in Lab

PLOS

Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action; this study shows that the human brain encodes perceptual choices independently of the specific motor actions used to implement them, even if such abstraction is not required by the task context.

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