'Why should I care?' Challenging free will attenuates neural reaction to errors
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- Davide Rigoni (UGent) , Gilles Pourtois (UGent) and Marcel Brass (UGent)
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- Whether human beings have free will has been a philosophical question for centuries. The debate about free will has recently entered the public arena through mass media and newspaper articles commenting on scientific findings that leave little to no room for free will. Previous research has shown that encouraging such a deterministic perspective influences behavior, namely by promoting cursory and antisocial behavior. Here we propose that such behavioral changes may, at least partly, stem from a more basic neurocognitive process related to response monitoring, namely a reduced error detection mechanism. Our results show that the error-related negativity, a neural marker of error detection, was reduced in individuals led to disbelieve in free will. This finding shows that reducing the belief in free will has a specific impact on error detection mechanisms. More generally, it suggests that abstract beliefs about intentional control can influence basic and automatic processes related to action control.
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- MEDIAL FRONTAL-CORTEX, OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, BRAIN ACTIVITY, FUNCTIONAL-SIGNIFICANCE, WEAKENING BELIEF, ANTISACCADE TASK, RESPONSE ERRORS, ERP COMPONENTS, NEGATIVITY, free will, belief, response monitoring, error-related negativity, PERFORMANCE, error detection
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4381882
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- Rigoni, Davide, et al. “‘Why Should I Care?’ Challenging Free Will Attenuates Neural Reaction to Errors.” SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 10, no. 2, 2015, pp. 262–68, doi:10.1093/scan/nsu068.
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- Rigoni, D., Pourtois, G., & Brass, M. (2015). “Why should I care?” Challenging free will attenuates neural reaction to errors. SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, 10(2), 262–268. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu068
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- Rigoni, Davide, Gilles Pourtois, and Marcel Brass. 2015. “‘Why Should I Care?’ Challenging Free Will Attenuates Neural Reaction to Errors.” SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE 10 (2): 262–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu068.
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- Rigoni, Davide, Gilles Pourtois, and Marcel Brass. 2015. “‘Why Should I Care?’ Challenging Free Will Attenuates Neural Reaction to Errors.” SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE 10 (2): 262–268. doi:10.1093/scan/nsu068.
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- 1.Rigoni D, Pourtois G, Brass M. “Why should I care?” Challenging free will attenuates neural reaction to errors. SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE. 2015;10(2):262–8.
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- [1]D. Rigoni, G. Pourtois, and M. Brass, “‘Why should I care?’ Challenging free will attenuates neural reaction to errors,” SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 262–268, 2015.
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abstract = {{Whether human beings have free will has been a philosophical question for centuries. The debate about free will has recently entered the public arena through mass media and newspaper articles commenting on scientific findings that leave little to no room for free will. Previous research has shown that encouraging such a deterministic perspective influences behavior, namely by promoting cursory and antisocial behavior. Here we propose that such behavioral changes may, at least partly, stem from a more basic neurocognitive process related to response monitoring, namely a reduced error detection mechanism. Our results show that the error-related negativity, a neural marker of error detection, was reduced in individuals led to disbelieve in free will. This finding shows that reducing the belief in free will has a specific impact on error detection mechanisms. More generally, it suggests that abstract beliefs about intentional control can influence basic and automatic processes related to action control.}},
author = {{Rigoni, Davide and Pourtois, Gilles and Brass, Marcel}},
issn = {{1749-5016}},
journal = {{SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE}},
keywords = {{MEDIAL FRONTAL-CORTEX,OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER,BRAIN ACTIVITY,FUNCTIONAL-SIGNIFICANCE,WEAKENING BELIEF,ANTISACCADE TASK,RESPONSE ERRORS,ERP COMPONENTS,NEGATIVITY,free will,belief,response monitoring,error-related negativity,PERFORMANCE,error detection}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
pages = {{262--268}},
title = {{'Why should I care?' Challenging free will attenuates neural reaction to errors}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsu068}},
volume = {{10}},
year = {{2015}},
}
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