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In Support of Pockett's Critique of Libet's Studies of the Time Course of Consciousness

✍ Scribed by Bruno G. Breitmeyer

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
22 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
1053-8100

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✦ Synopsis

Susan Pockett presents sound arguments supporting her reinterpretations of data that Libet and co-workers used to support a number of intriguing and influential conclusions regarding the microgenesis and timing of (a) conscious sensory experience and (b) volitionally controlled motor responses. The following analysis, extending and elaborating some of her main arguments, proposes that Libet's experimental methodologies and rationales, and thus also his interpretation of data, are flawed and that neglect or ignorance of methodological and empirical constraints well known to sensory psychologists risks drawing premature or faulty conclusions about the timing of conscious experience.

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