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Upper-Alpha Neurofeedback Training for Cognitive Enhancement: A Single-Session Study

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This paper reports on a single-session neurofeedback (NF) training procedure on the user-specific upper alpha band for cognitive enhancement of healthy users. A double-blind study was designed using a NF group and an active control group. Control group performed as the NF group but received sham feedback, minimizing the non-specific factors of training. Results of EEG analysis show the key role of the feedback: only the NF group enhanced upper alpha during the training, and it led to a desynchronization increase during the execution of a cognitive task. Regarding the behavioral results, a strong learning effect was observed, with the NF group performing better in almost all measurements but many of them without statistical significance.

This work has been supported by projects HYPER-CSD2009-00067 and DPI2009-14732-C02-01 of the Spanish Government, and by DGA-FSE (grupo T04).

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  1. Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón (I3A) and the Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    Carlos Escolano & Javier Minguez

  2. Bit&Brain Technologies SL, Zaragoza, Spain

    Javier Minguez

  3. Department of Psychology and Sociology, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    B. Olivan & Y. Lopez-del-Hoyo

  4. Department of Psychiatry and Miguel Servet University Hospital, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

    J. Garcia-Campayo

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  1. Bioengineering Group, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    José L Pons

  2. Bioengineering Group, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    Diego Torricelli

  3. Bioengineering Group, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

    Marta Pajaro

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Escolano, C., Olivan, B., Lopez-del-Hoyo, Y., Garcia-Campayo, J., Minguez, J. (2013). Upper-Alpha Neurofeedback Training for Cognitive Enhancement: A Single-Session Study. In: Pons, J., Torricelli, D., Pajaro, M. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_214

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