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Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action

This study shows that the human brain encodes perceptual choices independently of the specific motor actions used to implement them, even if such abstraction is not required by the task context

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Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action

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A Magnetoencephalography (MEG) machine similar to what used by the authors in this study.

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Credit: MEG Center Tuebingen (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions, but in lab tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action; this study shows that the human brain encodes perceptual choices independently of the specific motor actions used to implement them, even if such abstraction is not required by the task context.

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Biology: http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002324

Article Title: Abstract perceptual choice signals during action-linked decisions in the human brain

Author Countries: Germany

Funding: see manuscript

Journal

PLOS Biology

DOI

10.1371/journal.pbio.3002324

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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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