Part of the Scientific method is research, the scientific method is the method many educated scientist around the world use to solve their scientific problem. As this problem is also scientific the method was used thus research had to be done. The problem being tested is whether people can process data quicker and more accurately when they control their voluntary actions compared to when they do not control their voluntary actions. So the research done for this experiment dealt with two major fields of scientific study: neurology and myology. Neurology is the study of the brain and myology is the study of the muscles. However one must go further into both fields to understand the science behind the problem.
Neurology is a major subject however the information can be narrowed down to fit the problem dealing with this experiment. In this experiment three brain structures and five brain substructures are involved. The three structures are the Brain stem, the Cerebrum, and Diencephalon. Within these structures there are five sub-structures that are linked to this project. In the Brain stem there are the pons and the mid brain both control the link between the brain and the body. The Diencephalon has the Thalamus which sends instruction from the brain to the muscles of the body. Last but not least in the Cerebrum there is the the Cerebral Hemispheres and Basal Ganglia, the Cerebral Hemispheres controls thinking, memory, learning, intelligence and hearing. On the other hand the Basal Ganglia controls the connection between the brain and the voluntary muscles.
In the field of myology one must go further to learn about voluntary muscles, muscles which are consciously controlled through pathways in the nervous system. The process occurs when the the muscle fibers are called into action by the release of a transmitter from a single axon of a motor in the spinal cord; the point at which the nerve terminals meet the muscle fibers are specialized synapses and can be further known as the neuromuscular junction. The neuromuscular junction then bonds all te fibers into one motor unit. This unit is what enables one to use their voluntary actions.