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D-Index
63
Citations
20060
World Ranking
3348
National Ranking
1551

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1951 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Benjamin Libet is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their work is recognized within the scientific community, with a notable acknowledgment being their election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1951.

Details about their recent papers, including titles, publication venues, and citation counts, are not currently available. Similarly, there is no public record of frequent co-authors or preferred venues for publication associated with their research.

Information related to their main fields of study, subfields, and specific topics of work is not provided. Likewise, no data is present on published books or book publishers connected to Benjamin Libet.

Best Publications

  • Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action

    Benjamin Libet

  • Time of conscious intention to act in relation to onset of cerebral activity (readiness-potential). The unconscious initiation of a freely voluntary act.

    Benjamin Libet;Curtis A. Gleason;Elwood W. Wright;Dennis K. Pearl

  • TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL)

    Benjamin Libet;Curtis A. Gleason;Elwood W. Wright;Dennis K. Pearl

  • Subjective referral of the timing for a conscious sensory experience: a functional role for the somatosensory specific projection system in man.

    Benjamin Libet;El Wood W. Wright;Bertram Feinstein;Dennis K. Pearl

  • Responses of Human Somatosensory Cortex to Stimuli below Threshold for Conscious Sensation

    B. Libet;W. W. Alberts;E. W. Wright;B. Feinstein

  • Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness

    Benjamin Libet

  • Readiness-potentials preceding unrestricted ‘spontaneous’ vs. pre-planned voluntary acts

    B Libet;E.W Wright;C.A Gleason

  • Do we have free will

    Benjamin W. Libet

  • PRODUCTION OF THRESHOLD LEVELS OF CONSCIOUS SENSATION BY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION OF HUMAN SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX

    B. Libet;W. W. Alberts;E. W. Wright;L. D. Delattre

  • Origin and blockade of the synaptic responses of curarized sympathetic ganglia

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  • Brain Stimulation in the Study of Neuronal Functions for Conscious Sensory Experiences

    B. Libet

  • Subjective Referral of the Timing for a Conscious Sensory Experience

    Benjamin Libet;El Wood W. Wright;Bertram Feinstein;Dennis K. Pearl

  • Dopamine as a Synaptic Transmitter and Modulator in Sympathetic Ganglia: A Different Mode of Synaptic Action

    Benjamin Libet;Tsuneo Tosaka

  • The behaviour of chromatolysed motoneurones studied by intracellular recording

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  • Preparation- or intention-to-act, in relation to pre-event potentials recorded at the vertex ☆

    Benjamin Libet;Elwood W. Wright;Curtis A. Gleason

  • Cortical Activation in Conscious and Unconscious Experience

    Benjamin Libet

  • Control of the transition from sensory detection to sensory awareness in man by the duration of a thalamic stimulus: The CEREBRAL 'time-on' factor

    Benjamin Libet;Dennis K. Pearl;David E. Morledge;Curtis A. Gleason

  • Conscious intention and brain activity.

    Patrick Haggard;Benjamin W. Libet

  • Synaptic coupling into the production and storage of a neuronal memory trace.

    B. Libet;H. Kobayashi;T. Tanaka

  • Electrical Stimulation of Cortex in Human Subjects, and Conscious Sensory Aspects

    Benjamin Libet

  • Neurophysiology of Consciousness

    Benjamin Libet

  • The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will

    Benjamin W. Libet;Anthony Freeman;Keith Sutherland

  • Neurophysiology of Consciousness: selected papers and new essays

    Benjamin Libet

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Haggard
Patrick Haggard University College London

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