The neuroscience of volition is an emerging subfield of the brain sciences, with hundreds of
papers on the role of consciousness in action formation published each year. This makes …

Tics in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) resemble fragments of normal motor behaviour
but appear in an intrusive, repetitive and context-inappropriate manner. Although tics can be …

The question of how we can voluntarily control our behaviour dates back to the beginnings
of scientific psychology. Currently, there are two empirical research disciplines tackling …

Novel multivariate pattern classification analyses have enabled the prediction of decision
outcomes from brain activity prior to decision-makers' reported awareness. These findings …

Intentional choice is an important process underlying human behaviour. Intentional
inhibition refers to the capacity to endogenously cancel an about-to-be-executed action at …

Background Evidence suggests that chronic misuse of alcohol may preferentially affect the
integrity of frontal white matter (WM) tracts, which can impact executive functions important to …

What we traditionally call'conscious thought'actually is a subpersonal process, and only
rarely a form of mental action. The paradigmatic, standard form of conscious thought is non …

Inhibition of prepotent action is an important aspect of self-control, particularly in social
contexts. Action inhibition and its neural bases have been extensively studied. However, the …

People can inhibit an action because of an instruction by an external stimulus, or because of
their own internal decision. The similarities and differences between these two forms of …

This chapter provides an introduction to the philosophy of mind-wandering. It begins with a
philosophical critique of the standard psychological definitions of mind-wandering as task …