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Neurofeedback that tracks attentional focus in real time using fMRI and alerts subjects to impending lapses by modulating the difficulty of the task itself has been demonstrated to improve behavioral performance.

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Figure 1: Real-time neurofeedback.

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  1. Edward Awh and Edward K. Vogel are in the Department of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA.,

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Awh, E., Vogel, E. Attention: feedback focuses a wandering mind. Nat Neurosci 18, 327–328 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3962

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