Using the brain to forecast decisions

(JLM&A, SA ) In a research published on Sept. 28, 2014, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists show that neural recordings can be used to forecast when spontaneous decisions will take place. 'Experiments like this have been used to argue that free will is an illusion,' says Zachary Mainen, a neuroscientist at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, in Lisbon, Portugal, who led the study, 'but we think that interpretation is mistaken.'