The neural basis of meta-volition.
Journal
Communications biology
ISSN: 2399-3642
Titre abrégé: Commun Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101719179
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2019
2019
Historique:
received:
24
10
2018
accepted:
08
02
2019
entrez:
20
3
2019
pubmed:
20
3
2019
medline:
20
3
2019
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Volition is the power to act beyond simple, automatic responses. We can act voluntarily because we can choose to act otherwise than immediate, external circumstances dictate. But we can also choose to allow ourselves to be led automatically by events around us. The neural basis of this higher power to suspend volition- which we term meta-volition-is unknown. Here we show that inter-individual differences in meta-volition are reflected in extensive, highly lateralised differences in right frontal white matter as indexed by diffusion tensor imaging. Paradoxically, participants with enhanced white matter optimality in these regions are less able to exercise meta-volition, finding it harder to suspend volition. This suggests volition is dependent less on any hierarchical system of meta-volitional control than on the extent to which an extensive network subserving higher volitional powers is competitively dominant over others. A fundamentally parallel neural organisation of human voluntary action at the highest level is thereby implied.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30886910
doi: 10.1038/s42003-019-0346-1
pii: 10.1038/s42003-019-0346-1
pmc: PMC6418118
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Pagination
101Subventions
Organisme : Department of Health
Pays : United Kingdom
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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