Proactive Recruitment of Frontoparietal and Salience Networks for Voluntary Decisions.

ABSTRACT: There is evidence that neural patterns are predictive of voluntary decisions, but findings come from paradigms that have typically required participants to make arbitrary choices decisions in highly abstract experimental tasks. It remains to be seen whether proactive neural activity reflects upcoming choices for individuals performing decisions in more complex, dynamic, scenarios. In this functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study, we investigated proactive neural activity for voluntary decisions compared with instructed decisions in a virtual environment, which more closely mimicked a real-world decision. Using partial least squares (PLS) analysis, we found that the frontoparietal and salience networks were associated with voluntary choice selection from a time at which decisions

SUBMITTER: Rens N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5733024 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature