Neural correlates of the subjective experience of free-will during value-based risky decisions: a pilot study
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) July 17, 2026 Priyamvada Modak, Joshua W. Brown
Underlying the very notion of choice is the fundamental idea of free-will, which is challenged by decision-neuroscience aiming to explain and predict choices using interactions of neurons. The question of whether any choice is truly a free-choice and born out of free-will has long been a subject of philosophical debate. In this work, we do not take a position on this debate, rather...