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. 2016 May 24;113(21):E2877-8.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1604661113. Epub 2016 May 4.

Reply to Deecke and Soekadar: Do conventional readiness potentials reflect true volitionality?

John-Dylan Haynes  1 , Matthias Schultze-Kraft  2
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Reply to Deecke and Soekadar: Do conventional readiness potentials reflect true volitionality?

John-Dylan Haynes et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Reanalysis of event-related potentials from our study (2) time locked to either movement onset (red) or the trial start with onset of the green light (blue) and baseline corrected at time 0 ms and averaged across participants. Within the first 2 s of the trial (before participants are allowed to move), there is no evidence of a negative-going EEG signal in the blue trace as would be expected in the case of a CNV (8).
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