You might feel that you have the ability to make choices, decisions and plans — and the freedom to change your mind at any point if you so desire — but many psychologists and scientists would tell you ...

This is the first part in a four part series on the science of free will. First, some history. Though philosophers have debated free will for over 2000 years, scientists only began to take it on ...

The results of Libet's experiments have generated a lot of controversy about free will, and some neurophysiologists have even concluded that it does not exist. Moreover, Libet's experiment has been ...

Benjamin Libet, the UC San Francisco physiologist whose studies of the brain led to a new understanding of consciousness and brought into question the concept of free will, died July 23 at his home in ...

ADVOCATES of free will can rest easy, for now. A 30-year-old classic experiment that is often used to argue against free will might have been misinterpreted. In the early 1980s, Benjamin Libet at the ...

Don’t blame impulsive people for their poor decisions. It’s not necessarily their fault. Impulsivity could result from not having enough time to veto our own actions. At least that is the implication ...