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Localized EEG alpha feedback training: a possible technique for mapping subjective, conscious, and behavioral experiences

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Subjects who received EEG alpha feedback recorded from two homologous scalp areas (central-temporal) were trained to have ON-OFF control over the left and right sides. The partial success in demonstrating localized control suggests that subjects may be trained for very specific control. Localized training may be used to partition the subjective, conscious and behavioral experiences associated with selected EEG patterns and to develop an independent subjective physiological language. Applications to medicine and altered states of consciousness are discussed.

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    Erik Peper

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Peper, E. Localized EEG alpha feedback training: a possible technique for mapping subjective, conscious, and behavioral experiences. Kybernetik 11, 166–169 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00270673

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