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The experience of will: Affective or cognitive?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2005

Joseph E. Bogen*
Affiliation:
Neurologic Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA90033; Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA91105http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jbogen

Abstract:

Wegner vacillates between considering the experience of will as a directly-sensed feeling and as a cognitive construct. Most of his book is devoted to examples of erroneous cognition. The brain basis of will as an immediately-sensed emotion receives minimal attention.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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