Subjective referral of the timing for a conscious sensory experience: a functional role for the somatosensory specific projection system in man.
Brain : a journal of neurology March 1979 B Libet, E W Wright, B Feinstein et al.
Subjective experience of a peripherally-induced sensation is found to appear without the substantial delay found for the experience of a cortically-induced sensation. To explain this finding, in relation to the putative delay of up to about 500 ms for achieving the "neuronal adequacy" required to elicit the peripherally-induced experience, a modified hypothesis is proposed: for a peripheral...