TASK 8

Question 1

Readiness Potential (RP)

Answer 1

A scalp-recorded slow negative shift in electrical potential that begins up to 1s before a self-paced, apparently voluntary motor act

Question 2

(Libet, 1985)
An act is VOLUNTARY and a function of the subject‘s will, if …

Answer 2

1. It arises endogenously, not in direct response to an external stimulus or cue.
2. There are no externally imposed restrictions or compulsions that directly / Immediately control the subject‘s initiation and performance of the act.
3. Subjects feels introspectively that they are performing the act on their own initiative and that they are free to start or not the act as they wish