ArticleBiological psychology2015
Manipulating motor performance and memory through real-time fMRI neurofeedback.
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- Frontostriatal circuitry as a target for fMRI-based neurofeedback interventions: A systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Can we predict real-time fMRI neurofeedback learning success from pretraining brain activity?Human brain mapping · 2020Pooled it
- The Potential of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy-Based Neurofeedback-A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Best Practice.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Predictors of neurofeedback training outcome: A systematic review.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review of fMRI neurofeedback reporting and effects in clinical populations.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2020Pooled it
- The potential of real-time fMRI neurofeedback for stroke rehabilitation: A systematic review.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2018Pooled it
- Infraslow Closed-Loop Brain Training for Anxiety and Depression (ISAD): A pilot randomised, sham-controlled trial in adult females with internalizing disorders.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Trial
- Time course of clinical change following neurofeedback.NeuroImage · 2018Trial
- Decoded fMRI neurofeedback can induce bidirectional confidence changes within single participants.NeuroImage · 2017Trial
- From hidden springs to endless oceans: exploring the complementary roles of the amygdala and hippocampus in phenomenal experience.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Basal ganglia as an fMRI motor neurofeedback target in Parkinson's disease.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2025Article
- Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Regulation of craving for real-time fMRI neurofeedback based on individual classification.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Online self-evaluation of fMRI-based neurofeedback performance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Cortical Reorganization after Limb Loss: Bridging the Gap between Basic Science and Clinical Recovery.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Self-regulation of visual word form area activation with real-time fMRI neurofeedback.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Successful modulation of temporoparietal junction activity and stimulus-driven attention by fNIRS-based neurofeedback-A randomized controlled proof-of-concept study.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
- Inducing a mental context for associative memory formation with real-time fMRI neurofeedback.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Real-time neurofeedback to alter interpretations of a naturalistic narrative.Neuroimage. Reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Task performance depends on ongoing brain activity which can be influenced by attention, arousal, or motivation. However, such modulating factors of cognitive efficiency are unspecific, can be difficult to control, and are not suitable to facilitate neural processing in a regionally specific manner. Here, we non-pharmacologically manipulated regionally specific brain activity using technically sophisticated real-time fMRI neurofeedback. This was accomplished by training participants to simultaneously control ongoing brain activity in circumscribed motor and memory-related brain areas, namely the supplementary motor area and the parahippocampal cortex. We found that learned voluntary control over these functionally distinct brain areas caused functionally specific behavioral effects, i.e. shortening of motor reaction times and specific interference with memory encoding. The neurofeedback approach goes beyond improving cognitive efficiency by unspecific psychological factors such as attention, arousal, or motivation. It allows for directly manipulating sustained activity of task-relevant brain regions in order to yield specific behavioral or cognitive effects.
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