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The predictive brain and the “free will” illusion

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
The predictive brain and the “free will” illusion
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00131
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Italy 2 2%
Germany 2 2%
United States 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 99 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 24%
Student > Bachelor 16 15%
Student > Master 12 11%
Researcher 12 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 5%
Other 20 18%
Unknown 18 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 40 36%
Neuroscience 13 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 8%
Engineering 7 6%
Philosophy 4 4%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 19 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 February 2026.
All research outputs
#2,017,144
of 32,684,864 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#4,210
of 41,907 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,151
of 335,535 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#165
of 967 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,684,864 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 41,907 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 335,535 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 967 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.