John-Dylan Haynes (born 1971) is a British-German brain researcher. Haynes studied

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and philosophy at the

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from 1992 to 1997. In 2003 he received his doctorate from the Institute of Biology in Bremen. After research stays in

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(Plymouth Institute of Neuroscience, 2002-2003) and London (

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and Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, 2002-2005) he became head of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurosciences in Leipzig in 2005. Since 2006 he has been professor of theory and analysis of long-range brain signals at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and at the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging (BCAN) of the

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and the

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. In 2007 his research group was able to predict volitional decisions up to 12 seconds before they became conscious, thus improving the time bound of 0.5 seconds found in the 1980s by

Benjamin Libet Benjamin Libet (; April 12, 1916 – July 23, 2007) was an American neuroscientist who was a pioneer in the field of human consciousness. Libet was a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Francisco. In 2003 ...

. In 2008 he was a member-at-large of the

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's executive committee. In 2016, he got a Brain-Computer Interface Award for the work ''Brain-Computer Interfaces based on fMRI for Volitional Control of Amygdala and Fusiform Face Area: Applications in Autism'' with the

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's Neurotechnology Group.

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