title: Legal dimensions of neural antecedents to voluntary action.
abstract: This article considers the arguments of Nachev and Hacker in the context of claims that Libet's experiments regarding the readiness potential pose challenges for the criminal law, specifically for the distinction between voluntary and involuntary acts.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Law , European University Institute , Florence , Italy.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Patterson
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences