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I think therefore I move?

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Researchers pinpoint a brain area that controls the desire to move.

We control our actions by generating desires and plans. But the process of generating these intentions, known as volition, has been hard to study.

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  1. Desmurget, M. et al. Science 324, 811–813 (2009).

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Abbott, A. I think therefore I move?. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.454

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