HUMVOL

"Human Volition, Agency and Responsibility"

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 

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 Nazionalità Coordinatore United Kingdom [UK]
 Totale costo 1˙984˙927 €
 EC contributo 1˙984˙927 €
 Programma FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
 Code Call ERC-2012-ADG_20120411
 Funding Scheme ERC-AG
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-06-01   -   2018-05-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

 Organization address address: GOWER STREET
city: LONDON
postcode: WC1E 6BT

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Greta
Cognome: Borg-Carbott
Email: send email
Telefono: 4402030000000

UK (LONDON) hostInstitution 1˙984˙927.00
2    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

 Organization address address: GOWER STREET
city: LONDON
postcode: WC1E 6BT

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Patrick
Cognome: Haggard
Email: send email
Telefono: 442077000000
Fax: 442078000000

UK (LONDON) hostInstitution 1˙984˙927.00

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actions    subjective    responsibility    free    evidence    neuroscience    conscious    neural    wp    human    direct    agent    volition    action    brain    voluntary    scientific    agency   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'At the heart of human nature lies the idea of a free agent, whose conscious thoughts and decisions motivate their voluntary actions, and who is therefore responsible for what they do. Voluntary actions can be defined as actions that an individual agent generates internally, rather than in response to any environmental event. However, the concept of voluntary action remains controversial, and lacks a scientific evidence base. Neuroscience rejects dualistic notions of ‘conscious free will’, and instead views actions as products of mechanistic brain processes, which are often unconscious. Thus, volition is often eliminated from psychology, or replaced with alternative, more behaviourist formulations such as ‘executive function’, or ‘reward-directed action’. However, the generative quality of human action, and the strong subjective experience of agency and responsibility for one’s own actions, still require scientific investigation. Even if we may not have conscious free will as envisaged, cognitive neuroscience has acquired appropriate methods to investigate and measure what we do have, and to explore implications for society.

HUMVOL therefore aims to investigate scientifically the neural bases of human volition (Work Package WP1), agency (WP2) and responsibility (WP3). Subjective aspects are not neglected, because they may offer powerful cues to the mechanisms and functions of voluntary action. The core methods are behavioural, psychophysical and neural experiments with healthy volunteers. EEG and fMRI will allow direct measures of brain processes associated with volition, while subliminal priming and non-invasive brain stimulation will allow their direct manipulation. Mental chronometry and explicit agency judgements allow the impact of these processes on subjective experience to be assessed. Finally, interdisciplinary engagements will focus on how neuroscientific evidence could influence societal concepts of voluntary action, particularly in the Law.'

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