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Free Will and Agency

Free Will and Agency is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the neural correlates and abnormalities related to the sense of agency, voluntary action, conscious awareness, and decision making, with a focus on conditions such as schizophrenia. It also delves into the philosophical implications of free will and moral responsibility in the context of motor cognition and predictive processes.

  • Sense of Agency
  • Voluntary Action
  • Conscious Awareness
  • Neural Correlates
  • Schizophrenia
  • Free Will
  • Motor Cognition
  • Auditory Cortex
  • Predictive Processes
  • Responsibility
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
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